Citizens Quotes - Page 3

• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminist, Skins, Body

  9 Copy quote

• The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Justice, Force, Used

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Father, Women

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.412

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Teacher, Appreciation, May

  47 Copy quote

• As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

  Paul Robeson

  Artist, Silence, Patriotism

  65 Copy quote

• I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

  Nat King Cole

  Rights, Feels, Entitled

  26 Copy quote

• When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Doctors, America

  8 Copy quote

• The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

  Barbara Jordan

  America, Want, Problem

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

  Steve King

  Senior, Guarantees, Benefits

  7 Copy quote

• Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

  Jim Clyburn

  House, Balance, Environmental

  9 Copy quote

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Gary Bauer

  Hurt, Mistake, Law

  9 Copy quote

• We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

  Jennifer Granholm

  Steps, States, Ready

  7 Copy quote

• Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

  Vito Fossella

  War, People, Innocent

  9 Copy quote

• Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

  Cole Younger

  Fighting, Independence, Stubborn

  7 Copy quote

• But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

  Jane Byrne

  Strong, Opportunity, Cities

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Discipline, House, Soldier

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Kids, Stressed

  7 Copy quote

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  Otto Schily

  Love, Religious, Peace

  7 Copy quote

• Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

  Marty Meehan

  Past, Average, Years

  8 Copy quote

• Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

  Max Frisch

  House, Income, Levels

  Max Frisch (1962). “Three plays: The fire raisers, Count Oederland [and] Andorra”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

  Harold Pinter

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  Ramsey Clark

  House, Quality, Gaps

  "The International Herald Tribune" (Paris), June 18, 1991.

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Ukraine, East, West

  10 Copy quote

• The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

  Jim Garrison

  New Orleans, John Kennedy, Conspiracy

  9 Copy quote

• The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Sir William Blackstone (1794). “Commentaries on the laws of England”, p.128

  22 Copy quote

  Show source