Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.

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

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.