Quotes about Civic
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
— Will Rogers
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
— John Tyler
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.
— Gloria Steinem
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.
— Gloria Steinem
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
— Charles Finney
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
— Euripides
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
— NT Wright
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
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
— Joseph Addison
It is perhaps the most important civic duty of every citizen to inform themselves about the issues of the day and cast educated votes for people who truly represent their views.
— Ben Carson
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt