Citizens Quotes - Page 25

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

History is the key to citizenship.