Civic Duty Quotes

"Once you don't vote your ideology, votes don't really count" "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials" "A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works" "We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities" "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "The safety of the people shall be the highest law" "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you" "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all" "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." "Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country" "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." "Governance is about fulfilling the people's needs" "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained." "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought." "The good of the people is the chief law" "Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people." "There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."