Citizens Quotes - Page 6

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.