Famous quotes containing the words eligible and/or citizens:
“A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Mens Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)