Quotes about Citizenship
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
— Thomas Jefferson
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
— Michael Novak
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
— Herbert Hoover
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
— Will Rogers
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
— Frederick Douglass
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
— Isabel Allende
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.
— George W. Bush