12 Quotes Tagged: citizens

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad

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.

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

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.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Everyone who receives protection from the society owes a return for the benefit.

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

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

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.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

Citizens are not born, but made.