Quotes About Citizenship

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

In countries vulnerable for brain drain, loyalty or patriotism is often the only thing that can make people stay or draw them back

Ordinary men, we have seen, are not much interested in any political problems which do not immediately affect themselves.

Decididamente -pensaba- no he nacido para ser lo que hoy se entiende por un buen ciudadano…

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.

among his very few belongings I found a small, green leather-bound booklet given "to Timothy Donald Fuller with the Compliments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a memento on becoming a citizen of Rhodesia at Umtali on 17th October, 1974." Inside the pamphlet were a few of the sorts of things meant to inspire Rhodesian citizens onward and upward to greater things. A statue of Cecil John Rhodes, looking gouty; that was page 1.

The future of America is bound up in the present crisis. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship.

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

Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do.

Civic participation depends on creativity, an (aesthetic) knack for reframing experience, and on a corollary freedom to adjust laws and practices in light of ever-new challenges. Without art, citizenship would shrink to compliance, as if society were a closed text. Reading lessons would stop at the factual "what is," rather than continue to the speculative "what if.