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.
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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.
The most important office ... that of private citizen.
The most important office ... that of private citizen.
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.
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is read more
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing read more
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
