“Within our system of government every American has a right and duty to help shape the future course of the United States.”

2015, Naturalization Ceremony speech (December 2015)
Context: Our system of self-government depends on ordinary citizens doing the hard, frustrating but always essential work of citizenship -- of being informed. Of understanding that the government isn’t some distant thing, but is you. Of speaking out when something is not right. Of helping fellow citizens when they need a hand. Of coming together to shape our country’s course. And that work gives purpose to every generation. It belongs to me. It belongs to the judge. It belongs to you. It belongs to you, all of us, as citizens. To follow our laws, yes, but also to engage with your communities and to speak up for what you believe in. And to vote -- to not only exercise the rights that are now yours, but to stand up for the rights of others.

2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)

Preface to the American edition of Travels in Hyperreality (1986)

Quote, First State of the Union Address (1865)
Context: Certainly the Government of the United States is a limited government, and so is every State government a limited government. With us this idea of limitation spreads through every form of administration — general, State, and municipal — and rests on the great distinguishing principle of the recognition of the rights of man. The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state — prescribed his religion and controlled his activity. The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties. As a consequence the State government is limited — as to the General Government in the interest of union, as to the individual citizen in the interest of freedom.

United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875)

1920s, Equal Rights (1920)
Context: The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document — false to the name American. The assertion of human rights is naught but a call to human sacrifice. This is yet the spirit of the American people. Only so long as this flame burns shall we endure, and the light of liberty be shed over the nations of the earth. May the increase of the years increase for America only the devotion to this spirit, only the intensity of this flame, and the eternal truth of [Lowell's] lines: "What were our lives without thee, what all our lives to save thee, we reck not what we gave thee, we will not dare to doubt thee; but ask whatever else and we will dare".

On the Iran hostage crisis; letter to The Times (12 January 1980), p. 13
1980s and later

Wick
Allison
Sharron Angle Decries Muslim Law in Bent Tree
2010-10-08
Frontburner
D Magazine
http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2010/10/08/sharron-angle-decries-muslim-law-in-frankford-texas/
2010-10-20
Christina
Silva
Angle: Muslim Law Taking Hold in Parts of US
Associated Press
2010-10-07
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=11826443
The city of Frankford, Texas no longer exists. It was annexed by Dallas in 1975.