Citizen Quotes

869 Citizen quotes by 627 unique authors

However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish… — James Connolly
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world… — Mark Mirabello
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman… — Carmen Dell'Orefice
It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country. — Sergio Martinez
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which… — David Lilienthal
You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little. — Pat Buchanan
Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US.… — Suzy Kassem
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business… — Pericles
Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine.… — Dick Armey
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the… — James Madison
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all… — H. L. Mencken
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a… — Richard Mitchell
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the… — Richard Viguerie
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be… — Kurt Loder
There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you… — Wilferd Peterson
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its… — Vaclav Havel
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward… — Edward Dahlberg
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher… — Ludwig von Mises
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. — Jean de la Bruyere
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up,… — Laurence Tribe
The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have… — Ezra Pound
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to… — Thomas Jefferson

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