Charlie Pierce Quotes

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

The American Government will be what we all make of it.

The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

The idea of service leads to community.

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

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

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

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.