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 to be noble.
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen?s constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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 to be noble.
If you will help run our government in the American way then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen?s constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
Before Man made us citizens great Nature made us men.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.