Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest; for this man is a Roman.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

I am a Roman citizen.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

Any Roman citizen may join the Army.

We cannot accede to the proposition ... that the citizens of the several states are permitted to participate in all the rights which belong exclusively to the citizens of any other particular state.

Civil Rights ... include and embrace every right that pertains to the citizen.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messengers is execution or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides

Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

We're giving those benefits away, which we earn as citizens of this nation, of being legalized citizens.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

If we are Russian citizens, treat us as Russian citizens. We want equality and justice.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.