Quotes About Citizenship

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.