Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with read more

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He read more

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the read more

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government read more

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not read more

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and read more

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing read more

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his read more

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.