Quotes About Citizens

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

progeny. We want fewer and better children who can be reared up to their full possibilities in unencumbered homes, and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.