Quote Genre: Citizen

William Orville Douglas – ‘When a legislature undertake…

‘When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen?s constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.’

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Socrates – ‘I am not an Athenian or a Gr…

‘I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.’

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Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis – ‘The most important political…

‘The most important political office is that of private citizen.’

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General Omar Nelson Bradley – ‘If you will help run our gov…

‘If you will help run our government in the American way then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.’

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Isaiah Bowman – ‘Citizenship comes first toda…

‘Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world…. No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature to strengthen it is to … Continue reading →

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Theodore Roosevelt – ‘The first requisite of a goo…

‘The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.’

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Francis Bacon – ‘If a man be gracious and cou…

‘If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world.’

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Aristotle – ‘It is not always the same th…

‘It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.’

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James Russell Lowell – ‘Before Man made us citizens …

‘Before Man made us citizens great Nature made us men.’

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