Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.
Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became a Canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. Now you can. So I had to be one or the other. But the reason I became a Canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.
You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.
I'm not hesitating on that. I am a Hall of Famer.
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.
I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.
Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.