Citizen Quotes

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

The most important office, ... that of private citizen.

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

The President is not a God, not a miracle worker. He is a citizen.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream. The American Dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility, and economic security. For too long, the designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

I also expected a lot from Modi, like every citizen. Talking is different; delivering is important.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

He who has the power to take part in the deliberative or judicial administration of any state is said by us to be a citizen of that state.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

The new Turkish State is a state of the people and a state by the people.

I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?

A senator should be held to a higher standard than Joe Six-Pack.

[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

To afford the President the greatest deference and respect should be a gratification to any citizen.