"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind....--Shakespeare, (Julius Caesar)

"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." --Jean Jacques Rousseau (A Discourse on Political Economy)

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." --Benito Mussolini

"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free." -- Sir Edmund Burke

"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God."    --George Washington (Constitutional Convention Address of 1787)

The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained. George Washington (Inaugural Address of 1789)

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." --Proverbs

I beseech you to remember that your duty to God, to your country, to your families, and to yourselves, is the same. -- John Witherspoon, Evangelical Presbyterian (Pastor, signer of the Declaration of Independence)

"When I walked 3,200 miles across the United States for campaign reform and inquired of people why they were not voting, they said: 'Find us someone who understands us, who cares about us.' I'm talking about people living in trailers, people living in small towns with boarded-up windows on Main Street, with drugstores, grocery stores, hardware stores all eaten up by Wal-Mart, Costco, CVS Drugs, Home Depot, and other monsters several miles beyond the town. People coming out of farmhouses in Iowa, squeezed out of their livelihood by stinking agri-hog farms, people coming out of tobacco fields, cotton fields, wheat fields, people living in cities who have been out of work for over a year, people whose well-paid jobs have been shipped overseas, people desperate for relief from the oppressions of our corporatized and disempowered lives.
I promised to look for someone who would understand them, that had a vision of the future for them, that believed in Peace, Love, Justice..." --Granny D.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
--Abraham Lincoln

"Before I got into politics, I didn't know whether what I was doing even mattered. Now I know. One person can make a difference. I think it's something every person can learn. The main thing is, you can't be afraid." --Dennis Kucinich (U.S.A. House of Representives-Ohio)

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than are governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
-- Cokie Roberts (Television Journalist)

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
--Abraham Lincoln

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
--Allen Weinstein

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
--Paul Virilio

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
--Mary Antin

"As a corporate citizen, it is our responsibility to play an active role during times of need."
--Shawn Kahle (Vice President of Kmart, Corporate Affairs)

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
--John Thorn

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
--Bob Black

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
--George Takei (Actor and Activist)

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
--Abraham Lincoln

Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.
--Robert Brady

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
--Margaret Spellings

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
--Norman Douglas

Voting is a civic sacrament.
--Theodore Hesburgh

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
--Vaclav Klaus


This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
--Abraham Lincoln

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
--Plato

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
--Charles W. Pickering

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
--Michael Ignatieff

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
--William H. O'Connell

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
--Salvatore Quasimodo

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
--Patrick Geddes

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
--Donna Brazile

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.
--Frank B. Kellogg

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
--Walter Kaufmann

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
--Tom G. Palmer

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
--Lee R. Raymond

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
--Peter Coyote (Actor)

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
--David McCullough

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
--Bruce Schneier

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
--Benito Mussolini

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
--Phillip E. Johnson

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
--Daniel Libeskind

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
--Rene Cassin

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
--Abraham Lincoln

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
--Plato

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
--Albert Einstein

"Kmart is honored to receive the Outstanding Corporate Citizen Award and proud to partner with the American Diabetes Association on such an important event. We are grateful to be recognized by other retailers, vendors and industry experts for our associates' hard work and support of Kmart's philanthropic programs,"
--Mark Doerr (RPh, vice president of Kmart Pharmacy)