Lajos Kossuth Quotes

The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like vigor of its citizens and local self-reliance.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I liked the give-and-take of a policy discussion in the community, with citizens. I didn't know that even took place, frankly, but I never dreamed it would be an enjoyable thing to do.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

Educate and inform the mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

Citizenship is a lifetime job.

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.

I am determined to be a first class citizen.

Let us give our Republic not the best possible laws but the best which they will bear.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

A popular society must provide a school for citizens where through the best, most accessible and direct means they may be educated in the pure doctrine of Patriotism.

No one can be a good citizen unless he fulfills those domestic duties which are incumbent on his social station and unless he honors all his obligations to society.