Quotes About Citizenship

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I spoke to Mali and they understand; I've never lived there and I never said I was going there, my intention was always to play with Spain.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

I'm well spoken, I'm pretty, I eat well. I'm a great father and a great citizen. I'm an awesome American.

I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson or community leader. Just as ordinary citizens have multiple identities, so do MPs.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.