(117 quotes found)
“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the”
Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world”
Diogenes
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
Lester Beall
“I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world”
Socrates
“I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.”
Thomas Paine
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.”
Kofi Annan
“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
