Quotes About Citizen

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

All I'm suggesting is that the President, like any other U.S citizen, is entitled to constitutionally provided protections. Like due process. Like the right to fair trial. Part of the reason these constitutional guarantees were created to prevent hasty, reactionary decisions in difficult times that would undermine the fundamental philosophy of the nation. - Ben Kincaid

is not altogether a matter of fanfaronade when the American citizen calls himself a "sovereign." A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He

A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He has no superior. He

It is the Forgotten Man who is threatened by every extension of the paternal theory of government. It

The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.

I figure that unless you are in the business of politics, covering it or columnizing about it, politics should take up maybe a tenth corner of a good citizen's mind. The rest should be philosophy, friendship, romance, family, culture and fun. I wish our talk-show culture reflected that balance, and that the emotional register around politics were more in keeping with its low but steady nature.

As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about political or social responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist.