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“Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.”

Mind Duty Citizens Harder Voting Citizenship Making Up

Book:The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis

Source: The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis

“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

Men Past Nations Responsibility Gone Blood Tears Duty Fit Labor Moved Every Man Triumph Sweat Citizenship Anguish Peril Forefathers Moved On Sweat And Tears Blood And Sweat

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”

States Hate Enemy Taken Rights Duty Jew Despise Inferiors Citizenship

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.”

“When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.”

Doe Different Political Courses Objects Duty Demand Refuse Criticize Disagree Dislike Citizenship Political Power Rendering Incumbents

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.”

Men Firsts Moments Rights Duty Ought Birth Exercise Deserve Instant Citizenship Moments Of Life

Book:The social contract: and, Discourses

Source: The social contract: and, Discourses

“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.”

Firsts Able Poverty Military Willing Duty Citizens Weight Conservative Socialism Welfare Republic Citizenship Good Citizen Republic Day Good Citizenship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.”

“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”

Duty Taxes Obligation Voting Citizenship Jury Paying Taxes Jury Duty American Citizenship Goofing Off

Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot