Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

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

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

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

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

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

Our economy of allegiance simply is not infinitely expandable. If we become more Virginian or Georgian, surely we will also feel more remote, less responsible for the poor of Kentucky or of the ghettoes of Chicago. If we became more Virginian, we would be less American.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

I am well when Albania is well