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"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." »Albert Einstein
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"I am a citizen of the world." »Laertius Diogenes
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"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." »Socrates
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"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute." »J. W. Fulbright
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"A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey." »Chaim Weizmann
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"Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'" »Wilson Mizner
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"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
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"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs." »Albert Einstein
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"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington
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"There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities." »Paxton Blair
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"Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen." »David Dean Rusk
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world." »Albert Einstein
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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." »Charles Austin Beard
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." »Lucille Ball
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"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties." »George Bernard Shaw
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"citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." »Bill Vaughan
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"Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter." »G.K. Chesterton
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"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject." »Elija Lovejoy
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"I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." »Eugene V. Debs
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"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen." »Aristotle
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"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection." »Ronald Reagan
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"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." »H. L. Mencken
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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew." »Albert Einstein
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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