Citizenship Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizenship Democracy Equality Integrity Principles
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Our Declaration of Independence guarantees full equality for all our citizens. — Yoav Gallant Copy Share Image
As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share
If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There can be a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act, but why should we shelter someone who has come to India illegally from outside? — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share
“Encouraging Robert E. Lee to take a job as college president, "You might be presenting to the world in such a position an example… — William Nelson Pendleton Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors… — Kofi Annan Copy Share