Citizen Contributes

Famous quotes containing the words citizen and/or contributes:

    “The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)