Citizenship Quotes

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"A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world."
-- Andrew Gaines

"Good government is no substitute for self-government." -- Mohandas Gandhi

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind." -- William Lloyd Garrison

"Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
-- Gunter Grass

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. -- Vaclav Havel

"A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it means to be citizens in a democracy."
-- Elizabeth L. Hollander (1817-1885)

"If you look back in history, you will find the core mission of public education in America was to create places of civic virtue for our children and for our society. As education undergoes the rigors of re-examination and the need for reinvention, it is cruicial to remember that the key role of public schools is to preserve democracy and, that as battered as we might be, our mission is central to the future of this county."
-- Paul D. Houston, Executive director of the American Association of School Administrators

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
-- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (1828-1906)

"A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." -- Thomas Jefferson "It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Ask not what your country can do for you…Ask what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy "The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves." -- John F. Kennedy

 

Citizenship Quotes

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Citizenship Day - September 17