Citizen Quotes
869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors
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Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
— James Madison
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A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
— George Steiner
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I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and…
— Rick Santorum
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
— J. William Fulbright
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I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.
— Robert Fulghum
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I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental…
— Neil Gaiman
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
— Martha Gellhorn
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The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
— Gunter Grass
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer,…
— Dick Gregory
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I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying…
— Robert Griffin III
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For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane…
— Gail Collins
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I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented.…
— Billy Connolly
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The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to…
— Jeff Cooper
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Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
— Jeff Cooper
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been…
— Billy Corgan
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I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on…
— Claire Danes
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Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the…
— Mitch Daniels
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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
— Eugene V. Debs
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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for…
— Alan Dershowitz
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