Quotes about Civic
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
— Stephen Jay Gould
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
— Aristotle
Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
— Aristotle
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
— Herbert Hoover
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.
— James Carse
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain de Botton
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government.
— William Henry Harrison