Citizenship Quotes

"The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off."

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Edward Abbey

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

George Jean Nathan

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."

Paul Valéry

"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Charles de Gaulle

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

John Stuart Mill

"The people should fight for their law as for their city wall."

Heraclitus

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

Robert H. Jackson

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."

Louis Brandeis

"Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all."

Pericles

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference."

Wangari Maathai

"Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility."

Richard Aldington

"Every citizen of India must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties."

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."

Calvin Coolidge

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

Montesquieu

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A nation's existence is a daily plebiscite."

Ernest Renan

"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

Martha Gellhorn