Civic Obligation Quotes

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

How shall those who practice election frauds recover that respect for the sanctity of the ballot which is the first condition and obligation of good citizenship? The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

Jury service is a duty as well as a privilege of citizenship; it is a duty that cannot be shirked on a plea of inconvenience or decreased earning power.

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

You take an oath to defend the constitution. Congress is the next chapter of our national service. We pledged an oath to defend the constitution and that means working together to make our constituents' lives better.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

… by consenting with others to make one body-politic under government, a man puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it.

What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

A right is a responsibility in reverse.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Citizenship is a lifetime job.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

You must come forth to any Publick Service, whereof you may be capable, when you are called unto it.

To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we join a burning belief in duty.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.