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Your Quotes for 6 June 2005 - Citizens

I'm a citizen of the United States of America. I don't particularly take pride in that, I had nothing to do with it. But about 40 years ago a kid came to our school that wasn't a citizen, his passport was issued by Canada. We didn't think about it often, sometimes razzed him as teenage boys are wont to do, but he was basically just one of us. He did have to think about it, and finally decided to fight the bureaucracy and change his status. At 2:30 this afternoon, Neil William Mertz will be sworn in as a fellow citizen of this country. I was tempted to show up just to make sure he didn't cross his fingers during the oath or something, but I am proud to welcome him as one of us.

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 Ewing Stevenson, 1900 - 1965

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
     - Charles A. Beard, 1874 - 1948

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
     - Margaret Mead, 1901 - 1978

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self- government if we will but think so.
     - Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

The most important political office is that of a private citizen.
     - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1856 - 1941

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

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