Citizens Quotes

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

~ Barack Obama

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work.

~ George Takei

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

~ Youns Hussein

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

~ Mark Twain

When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.

~ Sunday Adelaja

.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously

~ Oche Otorkpa

The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead

Clean communities, healthy citizens.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Focus your whole attention on heaven, become a citizen of heaven.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality

~ Sunday Adelaja

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

~ George Washington

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guarantied by the supreme law of the land are involved.

~ John Marshall Harlan

For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

~ Homer Hickam

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.

~ Steven Magee

Never forsake your motherland.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

~ A.j. Beirens

If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.

~ Debasish Mridha

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

~ Garry Douglas Kilworth

It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them.

~ Steven Magee

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

~ Sunday Adelaja

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.

~ Steven Magee

The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.

~ Charles P. Pierce

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

~ Laura Ruby

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

~ Cole Younger

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.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

~ Stephen Kinzer

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

~ Seamus Heaney

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

~ Ted Cruz

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

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

~ John Lewis

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

~ Bobby Moynihan

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

~ George Takei