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    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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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.

by Omar N. Bradley Found in: Citizenship Quotes,
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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.

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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.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Citizenship Quotes,
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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.

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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Citizenship Quotes,
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The most important office ... that of private citizen.

The most important office ... that of private citizen.

by Louis D. Brandeis Found in: Citizenship Quotes,
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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

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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.

by Plutarch Found in: Citizenship Quotes,
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together read more

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Citizenship Quotes,
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