Citizenship Quotes
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
we all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations. (Quote by - Blythe Danner)
The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Ask not what your country can do for you…Ask what you can do for your country. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. (Quote by - Martha Gellhorn)
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. (Quote by - William Lloyd Garrison)
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. (Quote by - Ralph Barton Perry)
Citizenship consists in the service of the country. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world (Quote by - Socrates)
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. (Quote by - Mark Steyn)
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)
As global citizens, it is our responsibility to become active participants in our democracy, and to make sure that everyone's civil rights are protected. (Quote by - Robert Alan)
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual. (Quote by - George C. Marshall)
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
Good government is no substitute for self-government. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble. (Quote by - Isaiah Bowman)
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. (Quote by - Ralph Nader)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide. (Quote by - Patricio Aylwin Azócar)
Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. (Quote by - David Blunkett)
Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Quote by - Plutarch)
A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world. (Quote by - Andrew Gaines)
