Quotes of: Private-citizen Keyword

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Bureaucracy

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Asterios Polyp

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

Meditations

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

Long Walk to Freedom

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

Jason Alexander

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Phyllis Schlafly

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

Lupe Fiasco

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

Lee Greenwood

It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

Lori Goodwin

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

Matt Drudge

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

Max Frisch

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

Mencius

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

Richard Perle

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Rick Perry

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

Rick Scott