Quotes about Civic
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
— Aristotle
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
— Will Rogers
Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
— Aristotle
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain de Botton
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.
— Gloria Steinem
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
— Joseph Addison
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
— Charles Finney
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
— Euripides