Fellow Citizens Quotes

122 Fellow Citizens quotes by 95 unique authors

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And… — Paul Watson
Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have… — Anne Frank
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of… — George Washington
Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must… — Socrates
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens,… — William J. Clinton
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of… — Abraham Lincoln
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and… — Pope John Paul II
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy… — David Brin
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution.… — Joe Biden
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. — Ludwig von Mises
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that… — Mitch Daniels
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow… — Mitch Daniels
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite… — Grover Cleveland
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can… — Abraham Lincoln
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman… — Richard Rorty
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral… — Susan Jacoby
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland
In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.… — Zachary Taylor
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state,… — Aeschines
The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our… — M. Russell Ballard
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from… — Frederic Bastiat
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. — William Vickrey
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent… — Robert D. Putnam
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have… — Michael D. Barnes

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