Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's read more

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.