Quotes about Citizens

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.

China's experience reminded me of the French and Russian revolutions. The pattern was the same: People seized control by promising to promote certain ideals. Once they had consolidated power, they abused it, casting aside their beliefs and brutalizing their fellow citizens. It was as if mankind had a sickness that it kept inflicting on itself.

From his earliest days, George Bush was a man who valued courage, loyalty, and service. Those were the traits that his mother and father had instilled in him. And the United States of America, especially its citizens in uniform, embodied those ideals. That was the country that Dad risked everything to defend.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

Every Jew in Galilee and everywhere else, and I mean every one of them, when they heard Jesus say "the kingdom," looked for three things: king, land, citizens.

Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us — I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs — to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.

A people are not made for rulers, but rulers for a people.