Fellow Citizens Quotes
122 Fellow Citizens quotes by 95 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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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
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
— Ludwig von Mises
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
— Grover Cleveland
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
— William Vickrey
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Fellow Citizens Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 122 Fellow Citizens Quotes, led by these top contributors: