Montesquieu Quotes

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it should not be. Not of our whole life, for instance, for that would be to be born a slave-not even of a very large portion of it.

To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

Manhood suffrage means manhood obligation for service in peace and war

You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

I did my duty as an American citizen and Army officer.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

No man has the right to say to his country

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.