Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Citizenship Quotes
CitizenshipEconomyEducation Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
CitizenshipIdealsNational IdentityValue One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
CitizenshipEqualityHistoryJusticeLaw How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
CitizenshipCorruptionEconomic ExploitationGovernmentPolitics In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
CitizenshipOptimismPracticalityProblem SolvingResponsibility They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
CitizenshipCivic VirtueEducationMissionUnity It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
CitizenshipEducationFuture GenerationsGovernmentResponsibility We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
CitizenshipImmigration PolicyLegal RightsNationalityStatelessness You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
CitizenshipGovernanceLaw and JusticeLegal EffectivenessPolitical Accountability I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.
ArtsCitizenshipCultureDutyLiterature To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
CitizenshipEqualityGovernmentJusticeRights It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
CitizenshipCity DevelopmentCommunityIdentity This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
CitizenshipLeadershipPatriotismSelflessnessService Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
CitizenshipDemocracyFairnessGritKindness Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
CitizenshipIndignationInjusticeRebellionSocial Critique To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
CitizenshipGovernanceHistoryLawUnity We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
CitizenshipCrisis ManagementGovernanceGovernment AccountabilityVigilance In times of crisis, we are made to feel we should scrutinise our government's actions less closely, when surely that's when we should pay closest attention.
CitizenshipDemocracyFreedomPowerResponsibility A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
CitizenshipFreedomGovernancePolitical PhilosophyResponsibility The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
CitizenshipCommunityFamilyLoyaltyProfession A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.
CitizenshipEducationFreedomLawSociety What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
CitizenshipGovernanceJusticeMorality Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
CitizenshipDemocracyEducationGovernanceResponsibility Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
CitizenshipFamilyInspirationPatriotismPrivilege I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
CitizenshipEqualityFeminismProgressSocial Change I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
CitizenshipDevelopmentFreedomGovernanceTrust Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
CitizenshipEconomic OpportunityFair Labor PracticesWork Ethic People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.'