Citizens Quotes - Page 21

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.