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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.
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.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He read more
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history
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 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.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing read more
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.
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.