Citizens Quotes - Page 32

Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.

Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But this excuse cannot work for large numbers. Just imagine 10 million US citizens saying in unison: "I am just one powerless citizen. There is nothing I can do to change my government's policies!"

To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it should not be. Not of our whole life, for instance, for that would be to be born a slave-not even of a very large portion of it.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.

It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.