citizen quotes

I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 21:39.

  I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland,Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

-James Boswell
  Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (ed F  A Pottle,1936), entry for14  Aug.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

- Edmund Burke
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Civis Romanus sum. I am a Roman citizen.

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
In Verrem 5.147. This is a reference to the tradition that Roman citizens in foreign courts could often expect preferential treatment. The Roman governor Verres, whom Cicero was prosecuting, had ignored this fact altogether, even executing Roman citizens.

A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is

- (George) Norman Douglas
US    lawyer,    Associate    Justice    of    the    US    Supreme    Court (1939^80).       His       consistently       liberal       decisions       were occasionally   controversial,   such   as   the   stay   of   execution granted to the Rosenbergs, convicted spies, in1953.

Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.

- Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
  Concluding his farewell address to the nation,17 Jan.

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

- Phil (William Philip) Gramm
  On being asked if he would choose a woman as a running mate. In Newsweek,13 Mar.

Why should not the name of an Australian be equal to that of a Briton†to that of a citizen of the proudest country under the sun? Make yourselves a united people, appear before the world as one, and the dream of going 'home' will die away.

- Sir Henry Parkes
  Speech to theAustralian Federation Conference, Feb.

How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'The One-Legged Man'.

The liberty that the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by the governmental machinery that he lives under, whether representative or otherwise, but by the paucity of restraints that it imposes upon him.

- Herbert Spencer
  The ManVersus the State.

When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.

- BookerTaliaferro Washington
  Address to the NewYork legislature, 26 Jun.