Citizens Quotes
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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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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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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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Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
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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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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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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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Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.
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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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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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It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
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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 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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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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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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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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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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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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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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The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.
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If you are a Morocco citizen with a dual nationality, if you commit a crime in Morocco you are stripped Moroccan nationality and send to our own country. We can learn from them in that respect.
