Quotes About Citizenship

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Para los mexicanos la vida es muy difícil por culpa de quienes deberían hacerla funcionar.

God sent His Prince, Jesus, into rebel territory to conquer evil and free us to be true citizens of the Kingdom again... That's the essential story we find in the Bible, and it's the essential story at the heart of each of our lives. And that's what all good fantasy stories have at their core, whether or not it's a conscious theme.

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.

political disengagement no longer an option for any serious person.

Por este camino podemos deslizarnos hacía un mundo sin ciudadanos, de espectadores, un mundo que, aunque tenga las formas democráticas, habrá llegado a ser aquella sociedad letárgica, de hombres y mujeres resignados, que todas las dictaduras aspiran a implantar.

La descentralización del poder es un principio liberal, a fin de que sea mayor el control que ejerce el conjunto de la sociedad sobre las diversas instituciones sociales y políticas. Salvo la defensa, la justicia y el orden público, en los que el Estado tiene primacía (no monopolio), lo ideal es que en el resto de actividades económicas y sociales se impulse la mayor participación ciudadana en un régimen de libre competencia.

suggestion of public service, even

As a portrait should be like the person portrayed, so should a representative House be like the people whom it represents. Nor in arranging a franchise does it seem to me that we have a right to regard any other view. If a country be unfit for representative

Odio gli indifferenti. Credo che vivere voglia dire essere partigiani. Chi vive veramente non può non essere cittadino e partigiano. L'indifferenza è abulia, è parassitismo, è vigliaccheria, non è vita. Perciò odio gli indifferenti.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.

Hence, in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens