Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Ludwig von Mises

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
Max Frisch

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Alfred North Whitehead

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
William E. Simon

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
Barbara Mikulski

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Andrew Eldritch

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.
Fritz Sauckel

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
Michael Chabon

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

The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.
Robert Ley

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
Benito Mussolini

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
Jane D. Hull

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
William Jennings Bryan

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunter Grass

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
Robert Bolt

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark