Citizen Quotes

869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. — Desiderius Erasmus
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic… — Grover Cleveland
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse… — John Shadegg
Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high… — Edward Kennedy
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. — Henry L. Stimson
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen,… — Katherine Boo
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult, — James Meredith
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And… — August Wilson
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as… — Marco Polo
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 sufficiently… — H. L. Mencken
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with… — H. L. Mencken
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every… — H. L. Mencken
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. — Calvin Coolidge
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state,… — Aeschines
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not… — Grover Cleveland
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an unprecedented… — Amr Moussa
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade… — Unknown Author
There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media. — Linda Tripp
We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it. — Augusto Boal
I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the… — Jacque Fresco
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft,… — Albert J. Nock

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