Citizens Quotes
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It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
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I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.
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The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
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To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you. Federal, state and local leaders by breaking the trust you placed in us.
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
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Do you trust in your fellow citizens, in a sense that whatever they will have in additional tools they will use in balance more to the good or more to the bad? If you think they will use it more to the bad, you shouldn't do science, you know.
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
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If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
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I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
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As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.
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I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.
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When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
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The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
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We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.
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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
