(114 quotes found)
“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 what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it”
Mark Twain
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
Aristotle
“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”
Martha Gellhorn
“The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government”
George Washington
“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his own soul.”
John Finley
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony
