Good Citizen Quotes

Good Citizen Quote of the day

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is, that's secondary.

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.