“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan
“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.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”
Martha Gellhorn
“Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it”
Mark Twain
“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.”
George Bush
“I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world”
Socrates
“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