Citizens Quotes - Page 7

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime... It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.