Civics Quotes
Civics Quote of the day
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.
When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.
We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.
