Margaret Chase Smith Quotes

How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

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

National service is America at its best.

I want to do my bit for my city and my country.

You're not patriotic just because you back whoever's in power today or their policies. You're patriotic when you work to improve the lives of the people of your country, your community and your family. Sometimes that means making hard choices, choices that go against your personal interest.

I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

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

I want to serve the people.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

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.

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

I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service.

If they think its such a sacrifice to go into public service, then they should stay the heck out.

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

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.

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.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.