Citizens Quotes - Page 16

• Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence - Socialist, communist, whatever it may be - that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom.

  David O. McKay

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Religious, Law, Numbers

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• [The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom...men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Principles, Constitution

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• This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Party, Media

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• Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Waste, Crime

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

  Charles Hugh Smith

  States, Payment, Complicity

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• The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.

  Larry Craig

  Rights, Government, Self

  Congressional Record, Volume 146, Pt. 7, June 06, 2000.

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• It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Government, Office

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

  Dennis Prager

  Drug, Physicians, Doe

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, Cost

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• The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Doe, Add

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• The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Paper

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• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Incentives, Saving

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• Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

  James Bovard

  Odds, Government, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.133, Macmillan

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• It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Team, Liberty, Faces

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• The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Giving, Income

  "The More Given, the Less Earned" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Duty, Lasting

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1364, Delphi Classics

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• I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rights, Relation, Diets

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• [Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Population, Benefits

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage

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• When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Play, Rogues

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage

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• Big government makes small citizens.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Bigs, Big Government

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.90, Regnery Publishing

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• The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Wall, Military

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1212, e-artnow

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• The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Real, Pride, Rights

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• Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

  William Safire

  Home, Letters, Offensive

  William Safire (2008). “Safire's Political Dictionary”, p.313, Oxford University Press

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