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*'''This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.''' I come to speak to you in defence of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty—the cause of humanity.
*'''This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.''' I come to speak to you in defence of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty—the cause of humanity.
** [[William Jennings Bryan]], Cross of Gold Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, (9 July 1896)
** [[William Jennings Bryan]], Cross of Gold Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, (9 July 1896)
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*In time of trouble we are citizens. Shall we be citizens in war, and aliens in peace? Would that be just?
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**[[Frederick Douglass]], [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-the-black-man-wants/ "What the Black Man Wants"], speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865).
* The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can avail.
* The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can avail.
**[[Ulysses S. Grant]], Second Inaugural Address (1873).
**[[Ulysses S. Grant]], Second Inaugural Address (1873).
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* Good roads, good schools and good churches are a sure sign of the best citizenship produced by a free republic. How about our roads?
* Good roads, good schools and good churches are a sure sign of the best citizenship produced by a free republic. How about our roads?
** Author unknown; reported in "Sign of Citizenship", ''Good Roads, A Monthly Journal Devoted to Our National Highways'' (December 1906), p. 176; ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).
** Author unknown; reported in "Sign of Citizenship", ''Good Roads, A Monthly Journal Devoted to Our National Highways'' (December 1906), p. 176; ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989).