| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Jag är en medborgare, inte i Athen eller Grekland, utan i världen. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Kära medborgare, vi kan inte fly från historien. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world. | Andrew Gaines |
| Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another. | Anne Raver |
| Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding. | Edgar A. Suter |
| I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. | Eldridge Cleaver (1935-) |
| No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. | George Bush (1924-1924) |
| America is my country and Paris is my hometown. | Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
| The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. | Gunter Grass (1927-) |
| Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States | Horace Gray |
| In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. | Idi Amin Dada (1926-2003) |
| The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt | John Ralston Saul |
| For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. | Pico Iyer |
| It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. | Susan B. Anthony |
| Citizenship consists in the service of the country | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world. | Andrew Gaines |
| It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. | Susan B. Anthony |
| The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. | George Bush (1924-1924) |
| It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another. | Anne Raver |
| Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world | Diogenes |
| Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. | George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) |
| I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. | Gunter Grass (1927-) |
| If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| We're all citizens of the womb, before we subdivide into sexes and shades- this side, that side. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| 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 (1762-1826) |