Quotes and Sayings About Citizens
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If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.
-- A. L. Rowse -
Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
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I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
-- Aamir Khan -
Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
-- Aaron SorkinSource : "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
-- Adam Michnik -
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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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.
-- Aeschines -
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
-- Albert Camus -
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.
-- Albert J. NockSource : "On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays". Book by Albert J. Nock, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and Londo, 1928.
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
-- Alec Baldwin -
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I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!
-- Alex Trebek -
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
-- Allen Weinstein -
So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
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Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
-- Alva Myrdal -
I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.
-- Alyssa Milano -
It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.
-- AmaniSource : "Karume gives condition for meeting Seif". The Guardian, May 20, 2008.
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I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
-- Ana Castillo -
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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.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
-- Andrew Jackson -
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!
-- Andrew Jackson -
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
-- Andrew Young -
He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.
-- Anton CermakSource : Source: theanarchistlibrary.org