Quotes with citizen

  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

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  • Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Barbara Boxer Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • D.B.C. Pierre A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
    Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Billy Corgan As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Neil deGrasse Tyson As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    American astrophysicist, planetary scientist and author (1958 - )
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  • Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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  • Carly Fiorina But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Jefferson 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
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bao Dai Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Socrates I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Harold Pinter I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Rosa Parks I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Francis Bacon If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Albert Einstein If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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