Citizenship quotes

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◆ Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

- R Buckminster Fuller100

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

- George Jean Nathan99

◆ As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

- Adlai E Stevenson99

◆ No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

- George Bush99

◆ It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

- Aristotle99

◆ Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

- Eugene V Debs99

◆ I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

- Eldridge Cleaver99

◆ If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

- Charles De Montesquieu99

◆ A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ 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 Roosevelt99

◆ 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 Annan99

◆ This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

◆ The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

- Thomas Jefferson99