Citizen Quotes · Page 7

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am a citizen of the world, or no world at all!

— John Kani

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

— Jaime Lerner

I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.

— Dabo Swinney

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

— Jill Lepore

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

— Ted Turner

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

— Jacob Zuma

Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

— John Ashcroft

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

— Ludwig von Mises

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

— Aaron Sorkin

I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister…

— Ehud Olmert

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished…

— Edward Snowden

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

— Wilson Mizner

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

— Edward Gibbon

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws…

— Jacques Myard

Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in…

— Stompin' Tom Connors

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once…

— Pope Benedict XVI

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a…

— Benjamin Franklin

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British…

— Heather Brooke

Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is…

— Glenn Ligon

“If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be…

— Jim Rogers

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love…

— Scott Turow

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

— Ronald Reagan

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

— Dominic Grieve

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

— George Washington

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My home town called me a citizen of honour. So I'm a special citizen now.

— Per Mertesacker

I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.

— Donovan

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

— Zephyr Teachout

I've resisted the tag 'citizen journalist' - that's not what I am.

— Tim Pool

It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.

— Pramila Jayapal

I did my duty as an American citizen and Army officer.

— Alexander Vindman

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

— Socrates

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

— Conrad Black

Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.

— Vladimir Sorokin

“I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. —”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

— Emily Robison

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine