What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood. . . Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.
We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.
The 14th Amendment, 2nd Amendment, there's nothing in the Constitution that says that if you are born to an illegal immigrant in America, that you are an American citizen. It's not there. People think it is. They confuse it with being born to an American citizen in America or overseas. But there's nothing in the law, nothing in the Constitution.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.
I'm an average citizen and always have been.
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.
I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.