Sentence examples for ideal citizen from inspiring English sources

The Know Nothings created this ideal citizen who represented the ideal American.

The meeting reaffirmed his belief that Tressel has been an ideal citizen of the university, Gee said.

But French "republicanism" requires adherence to the notion of the ideal citizen and does not celebrate diversity or ambition.

Rather than an idealized representation of justice, Welch's judge seems to represent Preminger's ideal spectator, and perhaps Preminger's ideal citizen: the observer who knows the limits of observation.

Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson's ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices.

At one point Bayyumi reflects: "The ideal citizen of other nations might be a warrior, a politician, a merchant, a craftsman or a sailor, but in Egypt it was the government official..

Internet atemporality has coincided with globalization, with a vast market that never closes; its ideal citizen-consumer would never sleep and never cease to spend.

Haag writes, "Maybe this century's culture is a culture of feeling in which the ideal citizen-feeler has the qualities of soulful transparency, audacious disclosure, and candor, and who knows the skills of whispered confession...."....

One Bolivar admired George Washington as the ideal "citizen-hero" who "fills my bosom with emulation," while another famously and bitterly remarked that "the United States seems destined by providence to plague Latin America with misery in the name of liberty".

All that, and the likelihood they will work as volunteers, the unlikelihood they will commit crimes and their lack of children in school, makes them ideal citizens.

Ideal citizens need not be seen purely as trying to inform themselves about what others have found, so that they can vote intelligently.