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“He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.” Aristotle, Politics
“Hence it is evident that the good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.” Aristotle, Politics
“Hence in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens.” Aristotle, Politics
“There had to be something right about a citizenry which, when faced with catastrophe, thought about selling sausages to the participants.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen.” Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address
“We should be men first, and subjects afterward.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted...” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“To a narrow-thinking person, it is hard to explain that to be 'educated' does not only mean being literate and having a B.A., and that an illiterate man can be a far more 'educated' voter than someone with an advanced degree.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor...” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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