Citizen
A member of a political community who shares in its rights, duties and, in some states, its rule.
Works to read
- Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena") by Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
- A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1755 · Great Books
- Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill, 1861 · Great Books
- Pericles' Funeral Oration by Pericles, delivered 431 BC; recorded by Thucydides c. 431-400 BC
- The Civil War by Julius Caesar, 49-48 BCE
- Inaugural Address (John Adams) by John Adams, 1797
- Dred Scott v. Sandford by Supreme Court of the United States, 1857
- Plessy v. Ferguson by Supreme Court of the United States, 1896
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark by Supreme Court of the United States, 1898
- Second Inaugural Address by Woodrow Wilson, 1917
- Korematsu v. United States by Supreme Court of the United States, 1944
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Supreme Court of the United States, 1954
Passages
From the texts
In common use they define a citizen to be one who is sprung from citizens on both sides, not on the father's or the mother's only.
— Aristotle, Politics
Verified quotations
the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Never in reply to the question, to what country you belong, say that you are an Athenian or a Corinthian, but that you are a citizen of the world
— Epictetus, The Discourses
John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown,
— William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Here’s the specifications of the Standardized American Citizen!
— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
— George Washington, Washington's Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport
The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena")
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