Citizenship quotations

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◆ Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world...No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.

- Isaiah Bowman99

◆ A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it means to be citizens in a democracy.

- Elizabeth L Hollander98

◆ The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt

- John Ralston Saul98

◆ Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding.

- Edgar A Suter98

◆ America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

- Gertrude Stein98

◆ Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.

- Anne Raver98