Quotes About Citizenship

We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

MAVNI was never intended to be utilized for the benefit of illegal aliens.

I was born in Belgium but I never intended to play for Belgium. I never thought about that.

What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Far from the near sanctification of military service common in today´s United States, the Americans of 1790 regarded a standing army virtually by definition as the coercive arm of oppressive government, owing loyalty not to the public but to kings and dictators.--

Lesson no. 12: It's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven.

A Christian's citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.

Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family—the family of God.

As long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God. Our supreme loyalty is to Him.

Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.

My father suggested in an early draft that the hipster "became a criminal because he was not allowed to become a citizen.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong

It will see that it pays better, from every standpoint, to have healthy, vigorous life than to have that political stagnation which always results when one-half of the population has no share and no interest in the Government.

The titular counselor buttoned up his collar and replied seriously: "If you live in a state, you should either ch-cherish it or leave it—anything else is either parasitism or mere lackeys' gossip.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.