Quotes About Citizenship

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I had a head injury when I was living in England; I was in the hospital for three days, and they didn't even ask for my name. I spent three days in there. And then, when I was done, I just got up and left. I wasn't a British citizen; I was there on a work permit.

It was illegal in the Soviet Union to live anywhere except where you were registered, and it was difficult for anyone born in the Farm to change their registration and move to another place except by entering an urban profession or going to jail.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Åžayet yaÅŸam ya da düÅŸünme tarz?nda yüksek standartlara ulaÅŸam?yorsak, bu vatan?m?z?n küçüklüÄŸüyle deÄŸil, kiÅŸisel yetersizlikle alakal?d?r.

Lycurgus did not regard sons as the peculiar property of their fathers, but rather as the common property of the state

There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

Today we live side by side without knowing one another. We come together at meetings on an election day: we listen to the lying or fanciful professions of faith of a candidate, and we return home. The State has the care of all questions of public interest; the State alone has the function of seeing that we do not harm the interests of our neighbor, and, if it fails in this, of punishing us in order to repair the evil.

You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Shiv Sena is interested only in Marathi votes and not the Marathi manoos.

There are illegal votes cast, and if we can tighten down, we should do it.

I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don't care who authored it.

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.

You can't just chant 'Putin, go away!' because it doesn't make any sense at this point. We need to chant: 'Putin, give back our votes!'

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.