Citizens Quotes

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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help… — Barack Obama
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near! — George Carlin
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. — John Foster Dulles
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the… — Frederic Bastiat
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. — William O. Douglas
Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the… — William O. Douglas
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. — Quintus Ennius
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… — Thomas Jefferson
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all… — Albert Einstein
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of… — Edward Said
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't… — Clarence Day
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the… — Ayn Rand
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the… — Leonard Peikoff

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