Quotes About Citizenship

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

Good government is good politics.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.