“What
do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are
the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.”
-- Johann
Kaspar Lavater, German poet and physiognomist (1741-1801)
| "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."
-- Abraham
Lincoln |  |
"Democracy
is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing."
-- Archibald MacLeish, American poet, public official (1892-1982)
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"Democracy is the most demanding
of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit
required of the individual."
-- George
C. Marshall (1880-1959) |
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"Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret
Mead | 
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 | "The
worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing
it."
-- John Stuart Mill |
"If
I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never
reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen
of France second, and only by accident"
-- Charles de Montesquieu
"Neither
democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the
group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence."
-- Lewis Mumford, American social philosopher (1895-1990)
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There
can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
-- Ralph Nader |
Bad
officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan
"The
most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career
but for a life as a citizen."
-- Frank Newman
