Tony Tan Quotes

National service is America at its best.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

For me, any chance to serve Singapore even in its limited capacity... I would be glad to take it up and use it to serve Singaporeans.

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

In the great fulfillment, we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: 'What can I do for my city?' not 'How much can I get out of my city?' I like people to speak now and then in the same devotion to State and Nation.

Those of us who get a chance, and many of us will, should and will be motivated to serve America well.

I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The main thing is to be useful to the people, that I can look into people's eyes, and that people see that there are real benefits from my activities.

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 was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.

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

You must come forth to any Publick Service, whereof you may be capable, when you are called unto it.

We must let our young men know that they owe some responsibility to this country.

On your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country…will depend the answer whether a free society can compete.

Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.