Quotes About Citizenship

I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.

This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'

We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.

Like so many people around the world, I consider myself to be of mixed nationality.

If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

Antonin Scalia and Donald Trump both. They love the country. They do not understand people who don't. They would love that everybody else loved the country. But it's not gonna happen.

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

America - love it or leave it.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

What identity is more fraught with self-delusion and unacknowledged wrongdoing than American citizenship?

need to renounce my citizenship?4

globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost citizens of the earth and members of the earth's ecosystem more than as citizens of a nation or members of a religion. This identity disruption creates fissures and fractures among existing elites who are still managing parochial national, cultural, ethnic, or religious systems.11

Any training school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

All White House hopefuls we forewarn: You'll have to prove that you were born. Before Trump hits the state of granite, He must identify the planet Where he first took on human form - A place where blowhards are the norm.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.

All, no matter their means, must have an investment in their freedom, and will pay their part. This principle is law, and inviolate.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Wilderness offers us a template to an enlightened citizenship. Instead of only caring for ourselves, we are invited to care for species other than our own.

What will we make of the life before us? How do we translate the gifts of solitary beauty into the action required for true participatory citizenship?

My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury, so come equipped.