Quotes About Citizenship

Before you are admitted to British citizenship you are not even considered a natural human being. I looked up the word natural (na'tural) in the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (p. 251); it says: Of or according to or provided by nature, physically existing, innate, instinctive, normal, not miraculous or spiritual or artificial or conventional.... Note that before you obtain British citizenship, they simply doubt that you are provided by nature.

2The verb naturalize clearly proves what the British think of you. Before you are admitted to British citizenship you are not even considered a natural human being.

He may become British; he can never become English.

To save our democracy, we must restructure our economy to make us equal Americans.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26 000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

he claimed, that there must be as many as twenty million people in the United States who possessed some slight non-Nordic strain and were thus unfit for both citizenship and procreation.

As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." George Santos

Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process.

I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army. [Crowd boos] Let me restate that. We will not have a draft.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.

it. "You express surprise that I see my future in Canada. Let me tell you: I saw it the day I first crossed the border. I could vote there, you see, when I was still counted three fifths of a man here.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.