#private citizen

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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