Citizen Quotes

869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors

Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This… — Dallin H. Oaks
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag.… — Will Durant
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right… — Paul Begala
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. — Max Frisch
I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted. — Jerry Hall
We care little about what the average citizen thinks. — Tom Metzger
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad… — Michael Novak
My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy. — Lee Greenwood
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. — Michael Ondaatje
But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have… — Lynn Redgrave
The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this. — Robert Ley
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not… — Ginny Brown-Waite
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the… — Dana Rohrabacher
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a… — Bianca Jagger
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. — Michael Chabon
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir. — Fawn Hall
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. — Harold Pinter
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. — Ramsey Clark
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above… — Laura Miller
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull
My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen. — George Bernard Shaw
Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody.… — Ron Paul
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself… — James Boswell

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