Quotes About Citizenship

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

All this leaves me wondering what it means to be aligned with a political party at all. Do they do your thinking for you? Do they define your attitudes toward issues that confront the country? If so, then you are a pawn of those in power. But in a representative republic, those in power should be a pawn of you.

Many people, who defend our cherished freedoms as citizens of the US, will argue against mandated masks, helmet laws, gun laws, seatbelts, and against anything else that constricts a person from living life the way they want. Odd that many of these same people will maintain or seek laws to restrict another person's free expression of their gender identity.

The least free people in a free society are people like us who have a sworn duty to defend the constitution.

People born in other countries accounted for 14.6 per cent of the population in 1910 compared with 12.9 per cent at the 2010 census.

The popular view was that (as in the 1790s) the blood tax – l'impôt du sang – should be borne by all

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.

The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.

The question is, why do we have Muslims in the country?

The position that Indian Muslims have is unique because we exist in a democracy, which is something that cannot be said about many Muslims living in the world.

Like my father Bal Thackeray, those Muslims who consider India their motherland, respect the laws of this country, don't ignite riots and live amicably, we have nothing against them - as far as the others, they have no right to live in India.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all.

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

I don't describe myself as a nationalist, but I do love my country.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.