Quotes About Citizenship

It is essential for our national security to know who resides within our borders.

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

I think if I have learned one thing from all of my family members, both sides of it - my mom's side, my dad's side and everyone else - it's that every one of us has a responsibility to do what we can to contribute back and make our communities and our country a better place.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Tu enim, Caesar, civitatem dare potes hominibus, verbo non potes.

Of course, the DPRK purposely infantilized its citizens, making everyone helpless and powerless so that they depended on the state.

Choroba jest nocnÄ… stronÄ… ?ycia, naszym bardziej uci??liwym obywatelstwem. Od dnia narodzin ka?dy z nas posiada bowiem jakby dwa paszporty - przynale?y zarówno do Å›wiata zdrowych, jak i do Å›wiata chorych.

During the twentieth century, America recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910: 14.7 percent of the population. A century later, about 40 million people or nearly 13 percent of Americans today are foreign-born citizens.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican, and I don't even consider myself an American. If you and I were Americans, there'd be no problem. Those Hunkies that just got off the boat, they're already Americans; Polacks are already Americans; the Italian refugees are already Americans. Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

Cánovas, que era hombre de humor y profundamente sabio, hizo un chiste: «Son españoles los que no pueden ser otra cosa...»

no es aquel que pasa su vida intentando probar que el suyo es un país mejor; es el que trata de hacer grande al país que lo recibe, porque ésta es la mejor forma de honrar al que lo vio nacer».

It ought to be the duty of the public officials to take pains to see that men help one another, that no one is oppressed, no one wronged by an unjust condemnation, and that the strong come to the assistance of the weak in order that the body of citizens may grow in love day by day and endure forever." Juan Luis Lives, Bruges, 1525

It ought to be the duty of the public officials to take pains to see that men help one another, that no one is oppressed, no one wronged by an unjust condemnation, and that the strong come to the assistance of the weak in order that the body of citizens may grow in love day by day and endure forever" Juan Luis Lives, 1525

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.