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Quotes About Citizen

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.
~ Suketu Mehta
The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.
~ Fritz Sauckel
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
~ George Washington
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
~ James Callaghan
One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
~ Wagner Moura
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
la crise du climat pourrait susciter un sursaut citoyen, une secousse venue de la base, capable de répartir le pouvoir entre les mains du plus grand nombre et d'élargir considérablement le domaine des biens communs, lesquels cesseraient ainsi d'être vendus au plus offrant, morceau par morceau.
~ Naomi Klein
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
~ Thomas Jefferson
By the time George Bush ran against Michael Dukakis, Quinn was a different man, a practicing physician and a dedicated citizen who, knowing that he was going to be out of town for that election, had dutifully filed an absentee ballot.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
By the time the war was over, Great Britain also had a new monarch in George III, who had taken the throne in 1760. And in Boston, a feisty American lawyer named James Otis would issue his first political tract and argue that American colonists possessed all the rights of an English citizen.
~ Kenneth C. Davis
Tonight, I am a private citizen. To-morrow I shall be called to assume new responsibilities, and on the day after, the broadside of the world's wrath will strike. It will strike hard. I know it, and you will know it.
~ Candice Millard
The only city people are those born so.
~ George Ade
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In a true democracy, the vote of majority is absolute and has the power to override the interests of minority. In a republic, the individual rights of a citizen are absolute, and the vote of majority cannot infringe upon them.
~ Ilona Andrews
Señor Norman Muller, debo informarle, en nombre del presidente de los Estados Unidos, de que le han escogido para representar al electorado norteamericano el martes 4 de noviembre de 2008.
~ Isaac Asimov
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
~ Anonymous
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
~ Chris Christie
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
~ Satchel Paige
I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
~ Bryan Burrough
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.
~ Howard Baker
I was an immigrant twice, once from Egypt to Israel. Israel opened her arms and took me in. And America opened her arms, and I'm an American citizen now.
~ Haim Saban
My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.
~ Kevin Wall
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
~ Cesare Beccaria
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
~ Ludwig von Mises