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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.

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.

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.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

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

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.

The most important office ... that of private citizen.