Citizenship Quote by Robert La Folette

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

— Anonymous

...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or…

— Patricio Aylwin

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

— Barbara Deming

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons…

— John Adams

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and…

— A. Philip Randolph

“‎"If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights.”

— Joe Clark