Good Citizens Quotes

We’ve collected the best Good Citizens Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: George Jean Nathan, Yuan T. Lee, Howard Gardner, Clyde Drexler, Rush Limbaugh. Use them as an inspiration.

1

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan

2

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for – to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Yuan T. Lee

3

If we want to have good workers and good citizens, we need to create common spaces in which individuals can talk about the moral and ethical dilemmas that they have faced and how they resolve them.

4

You have to understand, the Blazers and their fans had a unique relationship. I’m not sure there has ever been a love affair between an NBA team and its fan base like we had… We had good players and good citizens.

5

Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.

6

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

7

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Sandra Day O’Connor

8

Good citizens deserve the means to defend themselves.

9

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

Joni Eareckson Tada

10

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

11

My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out in the Great Depression, and as a result, I had what I consider the ideal upbringing: We were a proud family, good citizens, and we didn’t have a sou.

12

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

13

We’ve always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

14

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

James Otis

15

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

Ray Stannard Baker