Quotes with citizens

  • Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
  • Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
  • It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
  • It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
  • It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
  • This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
  • What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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  • Voltaire In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Kofi Annan A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • George F. Will Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!
    Source: Speech West-Berlin, 26-06-1963
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Jackson All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • George Jean Nathan Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • George Jean Nathan Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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  • Bernard Tschumi Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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