Quotes about Citizens
So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 23:12
But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”
- Acts 16:37
So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
- Acts 16:38
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
- Cicero
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin
The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State.
- Ulysses S. Grant
We are not citizens of earth who are going to heaven; we are citizens of heaven who are traveling through earth.
- David Jeremiah
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
- Jimmy Carter
the Bible gives no direct advice for citizens of a democracy. Paul and Peter urged their readers to submit to authorities and honor the king, but in a democracy we the citizens are the "king.
- Philip Yancey
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
- John Tyler
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
- William McKinley
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
- Harry S. Truman