Quotes about Civic
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
- Moby
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
- Will Rogers
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
- John Tyler
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.
- Gloria Steinem
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.
- Gloria Steinem
Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in our civic organizations for their own political gain.
- Tina Smith
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
- Charles Finney
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
- Euripides
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
- NT Wright
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison