Citizen Quotes

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Socrates)
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. View quote
Bill Vaughan
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. View quote
Alexei Navalny
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. View quote
George Washington
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. View quote
J. William Fulbright
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I am a Roman citizen. View quote
Cicero
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. (Ambrose Bierce)
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, I'd like a card. He says, You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. So I stabbed him. View quote
Emo Philips
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. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. View quote
Pauline Kael
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. View quote
George Steiner
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. View quote
Edward Bellamy
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. View quote
Ramsey Clark
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. View quote
Charles A. Beard
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 of his household. (Wilhelm von Humboldt)
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. View quote
Aristotle
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. View quote
Christopher Lasch