Quotes About Citizenship

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Think independently and put the country first.

Every man, by consulting his own heart, may easily know whether he is or is not a patriot. But it is not so easy for the by-standers.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Democracy is not a spectator sport

Let's be clear. The debate over health care in this country is not a debate about medical treatment or the best way to prevent disease. It is a debate about economics and class politics. Either we maintain a profit-driven health care system whose main function is to enrich certain individuals and institutions, or we develop a nonprofit, cost-effective system that provides quality health care for all people as a right of citizenship.

Reasonable people can disagree... and it makes them no less American.

The highest hope of Socrates' peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

the Fifteenth Amendment

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...

Philippians understood very well Paul's charge about being citizens of another world. Paul spoke, not about going to heaven some day, but about living as citizens of heaven today…specifically from heaven toward earth.3 We have the privilege of representing heaven in this world, so that we might bring a manifestation of heaven to this world.

This is the responsibility of all Kingdom citizens. We represent our true homeland by bringing its culture to our temporary abode—the earth.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Ask not what your country can do for you," he commands, his voice rising to deliver the defining sentence, "but what you can do for your country.

All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin," said the president. "And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, 'Ich bin ein Berliner.

Reaching out to immigrants promotes national security. Following the July 7, 2005, London subway suicide bombings by British-born Muslim terrorists, Boris Johnson, a member of Parliament, noted that Americans did not grow their own suicide bombers, giving credit to Americans for acculturating its immigrants.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?