Quotes About Citizens

Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.

A few thousand years of weather will eventually reduce a city to its component elements and fields of rubble, though its more restive citizens are likely to get the job done faster.

It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

There isn't a single developed country which does not have its citizens well educated.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

It's up to American citizens to decide who they elect as president.

I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.

Every election is important for national politics.

It's pretty clear that Americans have a strong interest in knowing who's trying to influence their vote in elections.

Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.

My first responsibility is ensuring the safety of my family and our citizens.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

Every American should understand that their vote is secret.

This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their conscience!

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

Man has made himself free, terribly and dizzyingly free. Religion and art are kept alive for the sake of sentimentality, as a conventional politeness toward the past, a benevolent solicitude of leisure's increasingly nervous citizens.

T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends, not on having the walls of their porticoes covered with laws, but on having justice in their hearts.