“The man who saw his fellow US citizens burned alive, torn apart by a mob, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, and responded by writing “Screw Them,” is now claiming to be the messenger of truth to the citizens of the US.”

“The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens.”

Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) Tunisian politician

“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”

Ludwig von Mises book Bureaucracy

“The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens. ... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.”

Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) Tunisian politician

“The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.”
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.

Horace book Odes

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.”

Vicki Robin (1945) American writer

“If the people in this room were not citizens of the United States, if they were not citizens of any state, or of any sovereign government, and if we decided that we needed to, for our own protection, first beginning with safety—September 11th told us why we need each other for the sake of safety—form a government, we have to recognize, each one of us, that this government shall protect the right to life, and to liberty, and property of each one of us. No one of us can say that he deserves protection for the government to be formed, but not somebody else, or that somebody is entitled to more protection than anybody else. Anybody who demands more protection from the government than his fellow citizens won’t be accepted as a fellow citizen.”

Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor

“A man shows a narrowness of mind and becomes unworthy of his humanity by refusing any privilege to his fellow man because he is colored. Every prejudice entertained, every breach of justice and charity against a fellow-citizen because of color is a stain flung upon the banner of our liberty that floats over us.”

John Ireland (bishop) (1838–1918) Catholic bishop

“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat