Quotes About Citizenship

Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

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

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

If you want to be part of the American country, then do it legally.

I will never support amnesty legislation because it will not work.

Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.

I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.