"The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public."
- Peter Ackroyd
"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You ..."
- Criss Jami
"The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Mos..."
- Jeremy Rabkin
"It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government ..."
- Joseph J. Ellis
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic..."
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."
"Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time."
- Doris Kearns Goodwin