Quotes About Citizenship

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

The state was made for man, not man for state.