Quotes about Citizenship

Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

It's hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God's new age, a kingdom of surprise.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

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.

I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.