Quotes about Citizens
Jika para pemberi suara tidak tahu alat terpenting yang dimanfaatkan pemimpin mereka, bisakah bangsa tersebut mengklaim sebagai bangsa yang demokratis?
- John Perkins
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- Edmund Burke
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.
- David O. McKay
Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.
- Martin Bucer
Every amendment in the Bill of Rights expressly tells the government what IT is forbidden to do, not one of them explains what the people can't do
- Mike Huckabee
Jews may face martyrdom (not least because they refuse to privatize their faith), but they are committed to being good [162] citizens even under a regime at best penultimate and at worst blasphemous.
- NT Wright
The point about Philippi being a colony of Rome was not that the citizens would go back to Rome one day, but that (so it was hoped) they would bring the benefits of Roman civilization to Philippi.
- NT Wright
Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.β βHe will,β said the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 23:11