Joe Meno Quotes

Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.

The American Legion is a cornerstone of the community of South Jersey, and the United States, and its programs and activities strengthen our nation.

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

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

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.

National service is America at its best.

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

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?

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

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

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

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

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

Oh how hard it is to die and leave one’s Country no better than if one had never lived for it.

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

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap -- let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; -- let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.