Quotes about Citizenship

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

Denounce the government and embracethe flag. Hope to live in that freerepublic for which it stands.

Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune. The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States. They are to be the same who exercise the right in every State of electing the corresponding branch of the legislature of the State.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.