Citizen Quotes

• The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Nobility
  • Manhood
  • Resolute

• But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Free
  • Way
  • Peace

• Obviously, it is a matter of grave concern that a British citizen has been killed,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Kill
  • British
  • Citizen

• He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Career
  • Actor

• Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

  

  Plato
  • Community
  • Gifts
  • Citizen

• 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
  • Scary
  • Citizen
  • Attempting

• Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

  

  Nick Mancuso
  • Country
  • Grows
  • Citizen

• That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  

  Wayne Allyn Root
  • Responsible
  • Citizens
  • Connections

• People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...

  

  Alex Trebek
  • People
  • Good
  • Information

• He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.

  

  Anton Cermak
  • Name
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• If anybody accuses me of being rich, I give it back to them because I had a poor economical background. I worked my way up, and I am an exemplary citizen, and I always do what is good for my nation.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Rich
  • Nation
  • Citizen

• Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

  

  Thomas Cochrane
  • Family
  • Community
  • Mankind

• Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Integrity
  • Voting
  • Moral obligation

• The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Virtue
  • State

• What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Guilty
  • Innocent
  • Unknown

• Acting as a good corporate citizen, ... did the right thing. We asked them to create a filter to stop this kind of thing and they have done so.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Good
  • Done
  • Stop

• I feel like any other Brazilian citizen, I have a lot of happiness in me. I thank God for showing me the path to follow.

  

  Neymar
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Citizen

• A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Poet
  • Citizen

• A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Country
  • Car
  • Developing

• You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Money
  • Bible
  • Presumptuous

• I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • American
  • Patriotic
  • English subject

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

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Arms
  • Possess

• I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Government
  • Voice
  • Constitution

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