Citizens Quotes
I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad.
Jack Straw
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
William Weld
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
Marianne Williamson
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
Aristotle
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
Vladimir Putin
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Abraham Lincoln
I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
Evan Bayh
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
Plato
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner
We must provide adequate funding for an essential program that serves as a lifeline to some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Olympia Snowe
God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.
James Owen Sullivan
Avenged Sevenfold
In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
William Sloane Coffin
Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey
Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.
Joseph Stalin
Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.
Plutarch
The American people have pulled together in an amazing show of unity to help the Gulf Coast region, and I am proud of our citizens, ... Now, it is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to do the same.
Dennis Hastert
