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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
— David J. Skorton
What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
— Daniel Kemmis
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
— Adam Smith
The dignity of a nation is derived from the dignity of its citizens.
— Debasish Mridha
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
— Aristotle.
Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.
— Francois Hollande
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
— Edward Snowden
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
— Glenn Reynolds
We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.
— Edward Snowden
Sometimes the amount of stupid in this world confounds me. I swear some of these citizens are evolving backwards.
— Charlie Cochet
Young citizens by the use of our institutions; our better acquaintance with
— Benjamin Franklin
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
— Augustus
Families are incubators for citizen activists.
— Ralph Nader
Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.
— David Weinberger
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
— John Hickenlooper
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
— Edward Bellamy
It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.
— Susan Ertz
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
— Cecily McMillan
Clean communities, healthy citizens.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
— Daniel Webster
A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
— Cesar Pelli
We are all citizens of history.
— Clifton Fadiman
We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
— Bill De Blasio
Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
— James Madison
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
— Grover Cleveland
You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.
— Abhijit Naskar
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
— Dorothy Cotton
No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.
— Kofi Annan
when change is needed and strongly desired by citizens, change will come, one way or another.
— Jean Sasson
The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.
— David Folkenflik
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
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
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.
— Arthur Balfour
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
— Robert McKee
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
— Jalal Talabani
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
— James Madison
I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.
— Tim Walberg
The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.
— Fred W. Friendly
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.
— Martin McGuinness
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
— Andrew Johnson
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
— John Ashcroft
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.
— Rebecca Solnit
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
— Patch Adams
This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.
— George W. Bush
Big government makes small citizens.
— Mark Steyn
We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
— Alexander Hamilton
Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
— Elayne Boosler
People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
— Jonah Peretti
The constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
— Alexander Hamilton
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
— Sunday Adelaja
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
— Christine Pelosi
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
— Mary Frances Berry
Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official.
— Margaret Atwood
When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.
— Debasish Mridha
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
— Laurence Tribe
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
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor.
— John Hospers
When the people with authority don't have to answer to citizens of the galaxy, the result is tyranny.
— Claudia Gray
We are citizens of heaven. We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ. — Lailah Gifty Akita
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
— Bertrand Russell
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
— Michael Nutter
The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.
— Steven Johnson
Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
If, then, we are thus citizens of heaven, let our walk and actions be consistent with our high dignity.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens.
— Baruch Spinoza
If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.
— Debasish Mridha
I thought of myself as a global citizen.
— Eduardo Saverin
We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.
— Angela Merkel
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
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
— Pope John Paul II
America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of ...
— Henry Rollins
I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.
— Jane D. Hull
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens.
— Norman Cousins
I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens!
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
— George H. W. Bush
