Citizens Quotes
The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens.
Habib Bourguiba
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.
James Bovard
Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.
James Bovard
There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.
James Bovard
As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.
James Bovard
We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
Barbara Levy Boxer
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history
Abraham Lincoln
Wars, both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy.
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus
I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.
Joseph Story
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.
Anonymous
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms
James Madison
