Top Citizens Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Citizens quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Pierre Trudeau
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
- Pierre Trudeau
Collection: Citizens
Image of Vicki Robin
Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
- Vicki Robin
Collection: Citizens
Image of Dallin H. Oaks
The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.
- Dallin H. Oaks
Collection: Citizens
Image of Julius Evola
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.
- Julius Evola
Collection: Citizens
Image of Maximilien Robespierre
Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?
- Maximilien Robespierre
Collection: Citizens
Image of Richard Rorty
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.
- Richard Rorty
Collection: Citizens
Image of Ludwig von Mises
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Citizens
Image of Solon
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
- Solon
Collection: Citizens
Image of Henry L. Stimson
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
- Henry L. Stimson
Collection: Citizens
Image of Ben Stein
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
- Ben Stein
Collection: Citizens
Image of Glenn Greenwald
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
- Glenn Greenwald
Collection: Citizens
Image of George Takei
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!
- George Takei
Collection: Citizens
Image of Potter Stewart
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.
- Potter Stewart
Collection: Citizens
Image of Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Collection: Citizens
Image of Hugh Shelton
But, the other thing is, is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That is why we served...
- Hugh Shelton
Collection: Citizens
Image of Grover Cleveland
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.
- Grover Cleveland
Collection: Citizens
Image of Phil Gramm
Sophia Loren is not a citizen.
- Phil Gramm
Collection: Citizens
Image of Walter Smith
Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of the Supreme Court.
- Walter Smith
Collection: Citizens
Image of Augusto Boal
We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
- Augusto Boal
Collection: Citizens
Image of Jimmy Carter
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
- Jimmy Carter
Collection: Citizens
Image of Taylor Caldwell
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
- Taylor Caldwell
Collection: Citizens
Image of Frank Van Dun
As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.
- Frank Van Dun
Collection: Citizens
Image of Edward Bellamy
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
- Edward Bellamy
Collection: Citizens
Image of Brian Day
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?
- Brian Day
Collection: Citizens
Image of Shane Smith
The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
- Shane Smith
Collection: Citizens
Image of Giuseppe Mazzini
A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.
- Giuseppe Mazzini
Collection: Citizens
Image of Guy Oseary
I am an Israeli-born American citizen.
- Guy Oseary
Collection: Citizens
Image of Chuck D
The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
- Chuck D
Collection: Citizens
Image of Sol Wachtler
[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.
- Sol Wachtler
Collection: Citizens
Image of Mirra Alfassa
There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.
- Mirra Alfassa
Collection: Citizens
Image of Eduardo Saverin
I thought of myself as a global citizen.
- Eduardo Saverin
Collection: Citizens
Image of Habib Bourguiba
The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.
- Habib Bourguiba
Collection: Citizens
Image of Fred W. Friendly
What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.
- Fred W. Friendly
Collection: Citizens
Image of Ray McGovern
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth.
- Ray McGovern
Collection: Citizens
Image of Tania Bruguera
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
- Tania Bruguera
Collection: Citizens
Image of Jack Hunter
Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.
- Jack Hunter
Collection: Citizens
Image of Gifford Pinchot
It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.
- Gifford Pinchot
Collection: Citizens
Image of Mary Jane Ward
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
- Mary Jane Ward
Collection: Citizens
Image of Hal Holbrook
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
- Hal Holbrook
Collection: Citizens
Image of Rush D. Holt, Jr.
Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.
- Rush D. Holt, Jr.
Collection: Citizens
Image of Molly Ivins
What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.
- Molly Ivins
Collection: Citizens
Image of Tony Judt
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
- Tony Judt
Collection: Citizens
Image of Charles Hugh Smith
Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity
- Charles Hugh Smith
Collection: Citizens
Image of Babatunde Fashola
For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.
- Babatunde Fashola
Collection: Citizens
Image of Ann Leckie
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?
- Ann Leckie
Collection: Citizens
Image of John Henry Wigmore
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.
- John Henry Wigmore
Collection: Citizens
Image of Samuel Adams
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.
- Samuel Adams
Collection: Citizens
Image of Elayne Boosler
Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
- Elayne Boosler
Collection: Citizens
Image of Neal Boortz
American citizens were targeted and nothing is going to be done about it.
- Neal Boortz
Collection: Citizens
Image of Edward Said
And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.
- Edward Said
Collection: Citizens