All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.
Citizen Quotes
Now the trumpet summons us again – not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need – not as a call to battle, though embattled we are – but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation” – a […]
The recognition of God as the ruling and leading power in the universe and the grateful acknowledgment of His favors and blessings are necessary to the best type of citizenship.
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen’s duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
Socrates… said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. That he shall not be a mere passenger.
The line of cleavage between good and bad citizenship lies, not between the man of wealth who acts squarely by his fellow and the man who seeks each day’s wage by that day’s work, wronging no one… On the contrary, it separates the rich man who does well from the rich man who does ill, […]
