Civics Quotes

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. - Arthur Ashe

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. - Sam Brownback

We should be teaching Canadian civics and values to new immigrants, and we haven't been doing that as a society. - Frank Dimant

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. - Mary McCarthy

This has been a gross manipulation. It's about getting other people's money to pay for it. It's been a real civics lesson. - John Bauer

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home. - Charles Evans Hughes