Bill Clinton Quotes

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

Citizenship is not a transaction where you put your taxes in and take your services out. It is a relationship.

How shall those who practice election frauds recover that respect for the sanctity of the ballot which is the first condition and obligation of good citizenship? The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Clergymen do well to preach the neglected doctrine that the first duty of a citizen is to consider what he can do for the state and not what the state will do for him.

Jury service is a duty as well as a privilege of citizenship; it is a duty that cannot be shirked on a plea of inconvenience or decreased earning power.

I am determined to be a first class citizen.

Responsible citizenship comes from direct participation in the conduct of the government, and imposes equal responsibility upon every citizen. If we could quicken and increase appreciation of this responsibility, and every citizen were made to feel its weight and importance, it would go far toward improving our political and national life.

To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we join a burning belief in duty.

I think citizenship should count for something... and it really counts for nothing.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.

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.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Ask not what your country can do for you——ask what you can do for your country.

For America to work, Americans have to participate. If they don’t pay attention, they’re going to get screwed.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning.

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives?