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Quotes About Citizen

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.
~ Thucydides
I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
~ Wayne Grady
Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
~ Michael Moriarty
Belediye binas?n?n ikinci kat?ndaki Rizeli, kuyruktaki vatandaÅŸlar? azarlayan önemli ve meÅŸgul bir adamd?.
~ Orhan Pamuk
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen. Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
~ Orson Scott Card
marriage is not a covenant between a man and a woman... Marriage is a covenant between a man and woman on the one side and their community on the other. To marry according to the law of the community is to become a full citizen; to refuse marriage is to be a stranger, a child, an outlaw, a slave, or a traitor. The one constant in every society of human kind is that only those who obey the laws, tabus, and customs of marriage are true adults.
~ Orson Scott Card
Fools say, 'Why should we marry? Love is the only bond my lover and I need.' To them I say, 'Marriage is not a covenant between man and woman; …. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman on one side and the community on the other. To marry according to the law of the community is to become a full citizen; to refuse marriage is to be a stranger, a child, an outlaw, a slave, a traitor.
~ Orson Scott Card
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into tyranny," he warned the Russian scientists. "The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information as well as over the existence of every single citizen.
~ Walter Isaacson
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
~ Wendell Berry
Modern liberalism's perfectionist ambitions - reflected in its progenitor (and current euphemism), progressivism - seeks to harness the power of government, the mystique of science and the rule of experts to shape both society and citizen and bring them both, willing or not, to a higher state of being.
~ Charles Krauthammer
If Christians today understood this distinction between the role of the private Christian citizen and the Christian in government, they might sound less like medieval crusaders. If secularists understood correctly the nature of Christian public duty they would not fear, but welcome responsible Christian political involvement.
~ Charles W. Colson
Our laws as we support them now are slow, wasteful, cumbrous systems, which require a special caste to interpret and another to enforce; wherein the average citizen knows nothing of the law, and cares only to evade it when he can, obey it when he must.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
RIGHTFUL TAXATION IS THE PRICE OF SOCIAL ORDER. In other words, it is that portion of the citizen's property which he yields up to the government in order to provide for the protection of all the rest. It is not to be wantonly levied on the citizen, nor levied at all except in return for benefits conferred. The individual pays... then he has the broad mantle of the law spread over him, to protect him when he sleeps and defend him when he awakes.
~ Edward Archbold, 1848
I pledged that as long as I am in a position to uphold the Constitution, no barrier would ever come between a secret ballot and the citizen's right to cast one... For this Nation to remain true to its principles, we cannot allow any American's vote to be denied, diluted, or defiled. The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.
~ Ronald Reagan, 1981
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
~ H.L. Mencken
THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic—not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.
~ Harold Holzer
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
~ Harrison Ford
Every Soviet citizen committed at least three felonies a day, because the criminal statutes were written so broadly as to cover ordinary day-to-day activities. The Communist Party decided whom to prosecute from among the millions of possible criminals. They picked dissidents, refuseniks, and others who posed political dangers to the system. This began under Stalin when his KGB head, Lavrenti Beria, infamously said, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.
~ Harvey A. Silverglate
The case for socialism is always made based on an ideal and a promise. The ideal is that humans can lovingly coexist in a sharing and peaceful way. The promise is that this time, unlike failed attempts elsewhere, socialism will be implemented properly, and no citizen will suffer as a result.
~ Charlie Kirk
'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
~ John Prendergast
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
~ Nicholas Kristof
I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.
~ Sebastian Horsley
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
I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
~ Liam Neeson