Quotes About Citizenship

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

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learned that there is no more heartless saying than that the people get the government they deserve

The French state insists that once someone becomes French by citizenship, his ancestors become, metaphorically speaking, the Gauls, and he is therefore not to be distinguished from any other Frenchman, in statistics or anywhere else. It would take considerable conceptional subtlety as well as empirical knowledge to disentangle the truth and lies of all this.

Like all other virtues, patriotism when carried to excess becomes a vice; but that does not mean that patriotism is incompatible with respect for others.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.