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Quotes About Citizens

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
~ Medgar Evers
The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.
~ R. C. Sproul
Josh: So, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
~ Aaron Sorkin
God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!
~ Jeremiah Wright
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.
~ Laurence Sterne
I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city.
~ Pat Robertson
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
~ Huey Long
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!
~ Mark Twain
When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
~ Gerry Adams
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
~ Aristotle
We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.
~ Barack Obama
There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
~ Irwin Redlener
Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.
~ John Quincy Adams
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
~ Winston Churchill
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
~ Aristotle
In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
~ Voltaire
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
~ Thomas Jefferson
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
~ Frantz Fanon
We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
~ Warren G. Harding
The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
~ Simon Bolivar