Holland 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.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

The young people ... must recognize that they will get from their country tomorrow what they give her today.

Citizenship is a lifetime job.

We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

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

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.

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

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

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

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

It is the duty of American Muslims to participate constructively in the political process, if only to protect their rights, and give support to views and causes they favor.

The most important office, ... that of private citizen.

Being a citizen in a democracy involves more than just voting. It means being involved for the common whole.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

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 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.

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.

An actual residence of such a length of time as would give a man an opportunity of esteeming the Government from knowing its intrinsic value, was essentially necessary to assure us of a man’s becoming a good citizen.

Within each country’s borders, different view exist of the obligations of individual citizens to one another, of provinces and cities to their neighbors, of the large and the small entities to the polity—corporations, churches, and other institutions—to society as a whole.