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As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.