Thein Sein Quotes

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

The government has the right to the military service of all its able-bodied citizens.

Are you a politician who says to himself, 'I will use my country for my own benefit?' If so, you are naught but a parasite living on the flesh of others. Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self, I love to serve my country as a faithful servant." Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?

We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives.

The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country…. It is exhibited by an absolute and unreserved obedience to his country’s call.

Public before private and country before family.

Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen but upon all citizens.

I believe all of us want to do good for our country.

Let's start with a basic question: Do we, as a country, want our most highly qualified employees from the private sector to pursue public service? The answer, I would imagine, should be yes.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.

It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it should not be. Not of our whole life, for instance, for that would be to be born a slave-not even of a very large portion of it.

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.