Quotes of: American-citizens Keyword

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

Dear and Glorious Physician

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Flashes of Thought

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

House Corrino

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

The Bridge on the Drina

A brick could be used to raise your status as an upstanding citizen. Don’t get too excited, though. It’ll only raise you up about three inches. 

Brick

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Eric Liu

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Sue Townsend

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely und...

Tom Lantos

Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

Syndrome 1866 Vol. 4

There aren’t two political parties in this country, it’s all just one big party—and the citizens aren’t invited.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Texas Politics Today, 2011-2012 Edition

But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.

A Place of Greater Safety

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille—it’s not the deaths I can’t stand. It’s the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.

A Place of Greater Safety

came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.

Poor White

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

The Unseen Terrorist

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.

Voice of Reason

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.

Writings of Eugene V. Debs

A Toyota is not a toy. At least not a sex toy. However, my driving is both erratic and erotic. Tickets are ten dollars per passenger. Senior citizen discounts not available.

Xazaqazax

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

Carl Paladino