Judith N. Shklar

"Active citizens … are public meeting-goers and joiners of voluntary organizations who discuss and deliberate with others about the policies that will affect them all, and who serve their country not only as taxpayers and occasional soldiers, but by having a considered notion of the public good that they genuinely take to heart. The good citizen is a patriot."

- Judith N. Shklar

"The simple act of voting is the ground upon which the edifice of elective government rests ultimately."

- Judith N. Shklar

"Whether in private or in public, the good citizen does something to support democratic habits and the constitutional order."

- Judith N. Shklar