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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the read more
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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.
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.
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with read more
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.
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.
Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it
Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it
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.
