Citizen Quotes
On belonging, duty, and everyday dignity.
These lines look at citizenship as lived identity rather than paperwork, whether that's someone marking a milestone birthday or reflecting on what it means to grow up somewhere and claim it as home. A few frame the ordinary person as quietly powerful. See related ideas under Citizenship.
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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
As president, I want to be a citizen who can communicate with all Argentines.
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.
Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what...
But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
