Benjamin Harrison Quotes

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

We have no standard by which to measure the disaster that may be brought upon us by ignorance and vice in the citizens when joined to corruption and fraud in the suffrage.

Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Citizenship is a lifetime job.

I am determined to be a first class citizen.

A popular society must provide a school for citizens where through the best, most accessible and direct means they may be educated in the pure doctrine of Patriotism.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

To place and power all public spirit tends, In place and power all public spirit ends; Like hardy plants, that love the air and sky, When out, 'twill thrive—but taken in, 'twill die!

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

Happy the city where citizens obey. Obenientia Civium Urbis Felicitas.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.