American

Common Sense

CITIZEN EXPECTATIONS OF OURSELVES

AND OUR GOVERNMENT

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

– President John F. Kennedy

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet, Philosopher and Essayist

“Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.”

– Senator John McCain

“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”

– President Barack Obama

“The land flourished because it was… nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”

– President Lyndon B. Johnson

“Duty, honor, country…what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

– General Douglas MacArthur

“Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal.”

– Senator Robert F. Kennedy

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr., Iconic Civil Rights Leader

“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”

– Reverend Peter Marshall, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”

– President Bill Clinton

” Immigration is not just a link to America’s past it’s also a bridge to America’s future.”

– President George H.W. Bush

“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.”

– Thurgood Marshall, America’s First African American Supreme Court Justice

“Democracy cannot endure if ignorance prevails.”

– Diane Ravitch, Historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”

– Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

– President Ronald Reagan

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”

– Frederick Douglass, Writer and Civil Rights Leader

“The fate of America cannot depend on any one man.”

– President Franklin Roosevelt

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.”

– President Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”

– President John Adams

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

– Thomas Jefferson

Links

These web sites are among the most valuable sources of accurate information available in the public domain.

United States Census Bureau

Census.gov

Library of Congress

USA Facts

Statista

Science Direct

Pew Research Center

PewResearch.org

FBI Crime Data Explorer

cde.ucr.cjis.gov

Director of National Intelligence

dni.gov

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

OECD.org

The Economist Democracy Index

eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2023/

American Common Sense Citizen Expectations of Ourselves and Our Government

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