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Quotes About Citizens

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on
~ Adam Johnson
To think what the Stasi went through to spy on us. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on themselves, morning, noon and night.
~ Adam Johnson
Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.
~ Adam Johnson
To think what the Stasi went through to spy on us. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on themselves, morning, noon and night.
~ Adam Johnson
Luckily, citizens, no animal keeps its benevolent eye on the Korean people like the crow. It won't let ours become a nation where people give names to canines, oppress others because of the color of their skin, and eat pharmaceutically sweetened pills to abort their babies.
~ Adam Johnson
sometimes the boys from Propaganda will nose around for a feel-good story to play to the citizens over the loudspeakers, but we're story takers, not storytellers.
~ Adam Johnson
With dark, Jun Do made his way down the fish-cart paths that led to the new cannery. The old cannery had had a bad batch of tins and many citizens were lost to botulism. The problem proved impossible to locate, so they built a new cannery next to the old one.
~ Adam Johnson
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
~ Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
~ Adolf Hitler
T]he powerful national State needs fewer internal laws because of the greater affection and attachment of its citizens; the internal slave State can hold its subjects to their compulsory service only by force.
~ Adolf Hitler
Con orgogliosa meraviglia commisuravo lo sviluppo del Reich al marciume dello Stato: mi indignava che in uno Stato il più idiota dei cittadini ha il diritto alla parola
~ Adolf Hitler
Considérese cuán funestas son las consecuencias que a diario trae consigo la bastardización judaica de nuestro pueblo y reflexiónese también que este envenenamiento de nuestra sangre, sólo al cabo de siglos – o tal vez jamás – podrá ser eliminado del organismo nacional. Millares de nuestros conciudadanos pasan como ciegos ante el hecho del emponzoñamiento de nuestra raza, sistemáticamente practicado por el judío
~ Adolf Hitler
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
~ Adolf Hitler
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
~ Adrian Cronauer
Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can't have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramilitary groups, not vigilantes, not 'concerned citizens', it's our responsibility and ours alone," McCallister said which made me proud of him. Not quite tears-in-eyes but maybe warm-glow-in-tummy.
~ Adrian McKinty
I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
You are patriotic when you condemn and fight for fellow citizens. That is patriotism for me.
~ Jwala Gutta
Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
~ Carles Puigdemont
The good of the people is the greatest law.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln