Quotes about Citizens
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.
- Todd Young
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
- Ronald Reagan
I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.
This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.
- Euripides
The classes of citizens are three. The rich are useless, always lusting after more. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues; their malice stings the owners. Of the three, the middle part saves cities.
- Euripides
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams
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
The only underprivileged citizens who should favor monogamy are men. It is what gives them access to a supply of women that would otherwise drift up the social scale.
- Robert Wright
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
- John Adams
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
- Grover Cleveland
Who could blame the citizens of Massachusetts for rejoicing when spring is so close at hand? Winter in New England is merciless and cruel, a season that instills a particular melancholy in its residents and a hopelessness that is all but impossible to shake.
- Alice Hoffman