Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Citizenship is more than an individual exchange of freedoms for rights; it is also membership in a body politic, a nation, and a community. To be deemed fair, a system must offer its citizens equal opportunities for public recognition, and groups cannot systematically suffer from misrecognition in the form of stereotype and stigma.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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