Citizens Quotes - Page 19

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.