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the individual is today no longer primarily a citizen, but a party member. — Ludwig Von Mises

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. — Benito Mussolini

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine. — Victor Pinchuk

Six foot eight and all asshole. — Lauren Beukes

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. — Theodore Roosevelt

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary. — Cecily McMillan

The life of a citizen is the property of his country. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. — Orson Scott Card

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins. — Julia Kristeva

Every state's emblematic propaganda is worshiped by the consumer-citizen as a super-logo, a brand Juggernaut. — Bryant McGill

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV. — LZ Granderson

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. — Aristotle.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet. — Jennifer Pahlka

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another. — Mark Levin

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. — Herman Melville

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. — Theodore Roosevelt

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man. — Augustus

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen. — A. L. Rowse

Families are incubators for citizen activists. — Ralph Nader

Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community. — Michael Tellinger

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. — Edward Bellamy

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, — Leon Wieseltier

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor. — Bill Cosby

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. — Jill Lepore

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery. — Morley Safer

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact. — Claudia Rankine

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world. — Gerard Depardieu

I think the police and the FBI are quite capable of sacrificing the rights of a private citizen to what they consider the public interest. — Rex Stout

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence. — Demosthenes

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen? — Robinson Cano

The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — James Madison

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. — Werner Herzog

The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation? — Sunday Adelaja

I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.' — Christian McKay

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.' — Jim Webb

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities. — Paul Collier

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen. — Paul Newman

I'm an average citizen and always have been. — Sandy Adams

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it. — Augusto Boal

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. — Calvin Coolidge

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. — Lucky Luciano

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them. — David Marusek

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service. — Ronald Reagan

A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color. — Kofi Annan

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. — John Ralston Saul

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants. — Harry Allen Overstreet

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. — Cesare Beccaria

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. — Henry L. Stimson

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers. — Buzz Aldrin

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom. — Hilary Mantel

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education. — Kofi Annan

New Jersey, in 1844, became the last state to add the qualifying male to citizen, and women who had been voting all along could not vote anymore. — Ann Jones

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw

My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served. — Anita Diamant

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. — George W. Bush

I thought of myself as a global citizen. — Eduardo Saverin

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen. — Jacques Myard

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. — James Weldon Johnson

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen. — John F. Kennedy

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject. — Mark Horton

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen. — Charles Kennedy

In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman

Jesus, look at that idiot!" Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having — David Weber

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
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Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry

No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen. — Felix Frankfurter

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

[ ... ] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people. — Thein Sein

A citizen of the kingdom of love cannot exist without love — Sunday Adelaja

First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; — William Shakespeare

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen. — Jeff Cooper

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled — Neil Peart

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights. — Grace Metalious

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. — Socrates

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen. — Graham Steele

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street. — William H. Whyte

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
democracy. — Barbara

Tax is citizenship's rent. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us. — Fred W. Friendly

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen. — Simon Mainwaring

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. — Jesse Ventura

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. — Grover Cleveland

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion. — James Madison

Doc was more than first citizen of Cannery Row.
He was healer of the wounded soul and the cut finger. — John Steinbeck