Citizen Quotes

869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors

The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of… — Jesse Taylor
There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to… — John Douillard
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you… — William Shakespeare
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing… — Maurice Strong
The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every… — Noah Webster
The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business… — Robert Kiyosaki
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their… — John F. Kennedy
The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of… — Eduardo Saverin
I thought of myself as a global citizen. — Eduardo Saverin
I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen. — Eduardo Saverin
But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at… — Unknown Author
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest… — Thomas Jefferson
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to… — Goldwin Smith
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every… — Isabel Paterson
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him… — Plato
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as… — John F. Kennedy
As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the… — Helen Caldicott
The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of… — Susette La Flesche
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it… — Terence Cooke
...the physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of… — John F. Kennedy
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. — Paul Gillmor

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