Quotes About Citizens

Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.

Ever wonder why voters never thank governments for giving them tax cuts? Because it's their money, and it doesn't buy what it used to.

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts – children – into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a wonder teachers can summon the stamina for it.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Republics are ungrateful.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.