Vigilant Citizen Quotes & Sayings

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do. — Kiri Te Kanawa

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. — Samuel Johnson

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. — Grover Cleveland

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain. — Ralph Abraham

I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire. — Octavia Spencer

With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances ... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you. — Brett Favre

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity. — Barack Obama

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. — Robert Byrd

No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance. — Barry O'Farrell

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers. — Martin Luther

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

When it came to her, I was like an addict. And I had zero desire to kick my habit."-Ronan — Christy Pastore

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him — Luc De Clapiers

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi