Quotes About Civic

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

To love this particular nation is to love the world. This paradox lies within all forms of liberal nationalism. A liberal nation is a nation to which anyone who affirms its civic ideals belongs.

and confronting the civic hypocrites who put care in the language but seldom in the budget.

As a representative institution, the U.S. Congress embodies the temper of its time. When the nation is polarized and civic commonality dwindles, Congress reflects that image back to the American people.

The Constitution protects our right to peacefully protest injustices, but violence has no place in our civic discourse.

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

If there is a new airport in Mumbai, I would feel proud about it, and I equally feel angry when I see potholes.

We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.

Nothing irks me more than the vocabulary of social responsibility. The very word 'duty' is unpleasant to me, like an unwanted guest. But the terms 'civic duty', 'solidarity', 'humanitarianism' and others of the same ilk disgust me like rubbish dumped out of a window right on top of me. I'm offended by the implicit assumption that these expressions pertain to me, that I should find them worthwhile and even meaningful.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote.

There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Trees constitute the environmental quality committee—running air and water purification service 24-7. They're on every task force, from the historical society picnic to the highway department, school board, and library. When it comes to civic beautification, they alone create the crimson fall with little recognition.

Trees constitute the environmental quality committee--running air and water purification service 24-7. They're on every task force, from the historical society picnic, to the highway department, school board and library. When it comes to civic beautification, they alone create the crimson fall with little recognition.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

Keep America Beautiful.

Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.