Quotes about Citizenship
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
- Herbert Hoover
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
- Will Rogers
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
- George Washington
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
- Isabel Allende
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.
- George W. Bush
It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Alexander Hamilton