Quotes of: Good-citizen Keyword

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Charles de Montesquieu

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Iqbal Quadir

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Joe Biden

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.

John Culberson

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Gary Hamel

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

Jane D. Hull

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

John Marshall Harlan

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

James Inhofe

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

John Linder

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher

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

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

James Madison

Charles Foster Kane: Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.

Citizen Kane

Charles Foster Kane: I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

Citizen Kane

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Noah Webster

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Gil Scott-Heron

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Goldwin Smith

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

LZ Granderson