Tho' I have given almost half my life to public affairs, it has been as a private citizen.
I undertook the State administration of New York because it was supposed that in that way only could the executive power be arrayed on the side of the reforms to which, as a private citizen, I had given three years of my life.
Roosevelt at the age of fifty was once more a private citizen, having been the youngest President in our history.
On my return to America in the fall of 1913, there were two notable questions that occupied the attention of President Wilson and Congress, in which as a private citizen I had taken some part.
In the course of his campaigns against them he compelled Hiketes to renounce his alliance with the Carthaginians, to demolish his castle, and to live in Leontini as a private citizen.
Forbearance was no longer a virtue; and the state-prison, called the Bastile, being regarded as one of the strongholds of despotism, was attacked and taken by the people on the fourteenth of July.
Such appeals had a powerful effect; and a writer in the Aurora went so far as to charge Washington with having used the public money for his own private use!
The hour of my resignation is fixed at twelve to-day; after which I shall become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac.
Washington, now a private citizen, hastened to his beloved home on the Potomac, accompanied on the way by many friends, among whom was Colonel Walker, one the aids of the Baron Steuben.
It is not my intention to assume any public character on my arrival there, but to appear only as a private citizen of the United States, until the result of my inquiries shall point out a ready and honorable reception.
There is no difficulty in going in the character of a private citizen of the United States, and when one has once entered, the ground is changed.
Such a tribute is not often paid to a private citizen.
The Triumvirate still existed--although Lepidus had practically been reduced to the rank of a private citizen.
He, too, was working for the people, only he occupied a public office, while Marat was a private citizen.
It was to be the funeral of a private citizen--the honor of a public funeral-pyre was not to be his.
As a private citizen he will be less a menace to the peace of the nation than he has been as Secretary of State.
It falls to your lot to speak officially for the nation; I consider it to be none the less my duty to endeavor as a private citizen to promote the end which you have in view by means which you do not feel at liberty to use.
He appoints himself, though now a private citizen, the director of the nation.
If you were a private citizen, no one would willingly do you any harm unless he had previously received some injury.
Relieved from the agitations of a doubtful contest and from the toils of an exalted station he returned with increased delight to the duties and the enjoyments of a private citizen.
Washington, once more a private citizen, sat in front of the judges.
Dubbed emperor by you, I dare not call myself a private citizen: yet "emperor" I cannot say with another on the throne.
Silence would argue arrogance; plain speaking would arouse suspicion; yet flattery would be detected by Otho, who had so lately been a private citizen, practising the art himself.
That gives you imperial dignity to start with, and makes it unsafe for you to remain a private citizen.
It has been frequently observed that this habit of finding relief for moral indignation by placing a stringent law upon the statute-book is exactly the instinct which leads the private citizen to say âDamn!
In a private citizen, our judgment seldom expects an accurate scrutiny into his fortune and expense; and in a steward of the public treasure, frugality is always a virtue, and the increase of taxes too often an indispensable duty.
A private citizen of Philadelphia, Constantine Angelus, had emerged to wealth and honors, by his marriage with a daughter of the emperor Alexius.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private citizen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
