Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.
Quotes about civics (13 Quotes)
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
Once you open the door to a power like that, where does it end ... There is a certain bedrock way we do things as Americans. If we believe someone has done something bad, we take them to court and prove it. It's a grade-school civics thing.
People coming in here want to get their bait, their tackle and be on their way. They don't want to stand there and wait while I give someone a civics lesson.
I'm going to stand up among a bunch of elected governors and say, 'Are we going to allow the military without a shot being fired to effectively do an end-run coup on civilian government Are we going to allow that' ... We're going to have a little civics lesson for some leaders who are apparently out of touch in the military.
In the abstract, it's a good idea that students know more about the Constitution. Civics has been squeezed out of the curriculum.
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
An eighth-grader in civics class knows that a bill cannot become law unless the identical bill passes the House and Senate and is signed by the president.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
There is only one Education, and it has only one goal the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
The governor is essentially trying to revoke Hoosiers' rights to defend the state constitution in the courts he needs to review his seventh-grade civics class material on the separate branches of government and the Bill of Rights.
Honda deserves a standing ovation for not playing it safe again. The engineering passion that Honda ... was founded on radiates from these new Civics.