Citizens Quote by Adam Smith

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

— Adam Smith

It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

— Adam Smith

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

— Peter Ralston

“In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time are malleable,…

— Amir Aczel

There is good to be found anywhere in the world, and not necessarily only through travel.

— Nuseir Yassin

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the…

— Max Stirner

“Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as…

— Henry David Thoreau

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

— Elfriede Jelinek

“So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

— Thomas Paine

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

— Adam Smith