Quotes About Citizenship

Your government is no longer mine.

The clause that grants all "persons" equal protection under the law, in context, seems to apply pretty clearly only to human beings "born or naturalized" in the United States of America. But fate and time and the conspiracies of great wealth and power often have a way of turning common sense and logic on its head

Ella para él y él para el Estado

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. -Thomas Jefferson

We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.

This is a subject with which wisdom and patriotism should be occupied.

El reposo es el primer deber del ciudadano, y la impaciencia no hace más que perjudicarle.

Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

You're chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

The choice he was forced to make between faith and complacency is one that faces all Americans, not for the duration of a war but for the duration of our democracy.

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

They have marginalized the very capabilities our children need to create a more equitable and sustainable world, including creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, collaboration, and compassion.

Emperor Marcus Aurelius: We should not say I am an Athenian or I am a Roman but I am a citizen of the Universe...For there is only one universe, one God, one truth. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.