Citizens Quotes - Page 16

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent?

What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.