Quotes About Civics

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

The most important part of civics education is to turn students into active citizens.

Our government has betrayed us," said his father. "In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn't riot!

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we're all in it together. If there is no common good, there is no society.

Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

responsibility is not a teaching in civics. It is the simplest and easiest way for you to express your own divinity. The

Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?

We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.

In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.

Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government.

responsibility is not a teaching in civics. It is the simplest and easiest way for you to express your own divinity.

Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.