Quotes About Citizenship

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.