Citizens Quote by Aristotle

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must…

— Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

— Aristotle

“it is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.”

— Seneca

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

— Aristotle

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a…

— Patrick Henry

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge…

— Max Stirner

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him…

— H. L. Mencken

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

— Robert Baden-Powell

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for…

— Louis D. Brandeis