Quotes about Civics
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
- Calvin Coolidge
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
- Arthur Ashe
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
- John Adams
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
- Aristotle
Dear me, dear me,' replied a testy voice, 'I am very sorry for it, but what am I to do? I can't build it up again. The chief magistrate of the city can't go and be a rebuilding of people's houses, my good sir. Stuff and nonsense!' 'But the chief magistrate of the city can prevent people's houses from having any need to be rebuilt, if the chief magistrate's a man, and not a dummy—can't he, my lord?' cried the old gentleman in a choleric manner.
- Charles Dickens
Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
- Abraham Lincoln
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
- George Washington
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
- Woodrow Wilson
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
- Anne Lamott