Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Naomi Wolf

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

Richard Burr

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

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.

Marco Rubio

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Sheila Jackson Lee

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

Shane Smith

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

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.

Pierre Trudeau

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

Taylor Caldwell

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Trevor Noah

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

Robert Kennedy

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Richard Rorty

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

Tony Judt

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Tony Judt

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Steven Erikson

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

Sonia Sotomayor

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

Tim Walberg

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Thomas Friedman

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Viggo Mortensen

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

Robert Fulghum

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Ronald Reagan

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Shahrukh Khan

I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

Rick Scott

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Samuel Adams

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.