Patriotic Citizens Quotes

#1. If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

James Madison

#2. The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

John Gardner

#3. We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Dave Barry

#4. The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Raymond Berry

#5. It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#6. And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

Taylor Branch

#7. This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Aristotle.

#8. It is no coincidence that the American hunter is the most patriotic of all our citizens. Who cares more for this land's beauties than he?

Fred Bear

#9. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama

#10. Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes be instituted by some informal and unauthorized propositions, made by some patriotic and respectable citizen or number of citizens.

James Madison

#11. A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

Iyanla Vanzant

#12. I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

Harry West

#13. He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the welfare of the community above his own

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Amy Lee

#15. All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays ... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

Jesse Ventura

#16. Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

Roger Babson

#17. You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

Herman Melville

#18. No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

Barack Obama