Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Socrates

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Socrates

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Donna Shalala

All kinds of people are getting very sick because they're taking two kinds of drugs they shouldn't take together, for instance, ... It's a particular problem for senior citizens who are having trouble reading the fine print.

A judge would say 'He's a good citizen and unlikely to do this again'.

David Davis

The Home Office must get an urgent grip on this problem. They are failing in their principle responsibility to protect the citizens of this country.

Henry Rollins

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

Medgar Evers

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

You can't enjoy freedoms, you can't think about the quality of life of your citizens, you can't think of a future for your citizens or jobs or economic prosperity, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, if you can't provide a level of security for the country itself.

The liberty and life of a fellow citizen is now in your hands.

These are more examples of total failure of Citizens to provide any level of confidence to Floridians that they know what they're doing,

These immigrants that come here, their dream is to cross the border, get their citizenship and actually live here.

This is a great day for the Serbian nation, for all citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, for the future of the peace and stability in this region.

Peter May

How far should public officials go in protecting somewhat indifferent citizens who have other concerns?

However, his opinion involves a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from the citizens of San Diego,

John Culberson

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

Don Wallace

The main purpose is to connect to a large number of our citizens that are supportive of the city seal and let them know how they can get involved and how they can support the issue.

James Madison

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.

James Madison

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

James Madison

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

Fred W. Friendly

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Hilaire Belloc

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

Henry L. Stimson

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Jimmy Carter

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position that we don't like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

The letter offended me personally, not as a council member, but as a citizen of Warrick County. I interpreted the letter to mean that the more a deputy would make, the better they would protect the citizens of the county.

The Legislature is supposed to represent the citizens of the state, and I don't think on this issue they're reflecting the will of the people.

Robert Bolt

The law is not a ""light"" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

Frank Chodorov

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.