Quotes About Citizens

I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

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

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.