Quotes About Citizenship

I think I should be described as 'bi' - not bisexual, because I'm not - I'm gay - but 'binational' because I retain British nationality, and I add to it being Australian, which is like having your cake and eating it.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

Sheldon S. Wolin

Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism.

All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?

Everybody should give some of their time for the good of their town or country.

A coloro che sono privi di una qualunque identità sociale, l'Ur-Fascismo dice che il loro unico privilegio è il più comune di tutti, quello di essere nati nello stesso paese.

You have to educate people first— you can't let them go out and vote for whatever they want! You don't know what you'd end up with!

The polls were still open, and Lanny stopped across the street and watched for a few minutes. There was an American flag on a staff before the old white frame town hall, the polling place, and a few people waiting in line—but no loitering, and no electioneering within a specified distance of the sacred spot. He had seen people fighting one another on so many parts of the earth's surface, and how he longed to teach them this dignified and orderly way of settling their problems.

I am under orders, as much so as any private in the army. The American people are my boss, and I have the job of finding out what they want, and doing it.

When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I?

All our efforts will be vain unless we can show that our democratic system works, and that its end product is justice and opportunity for the common man.

When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don't I?" It was a remark that Lanny would never forget.

Allí donde no hay libertad humana no puede haber libertad nacional, ya que la libertad nacional es sobre todo libertad del hombre.

Citizenship, after all, is not an entitlement; it requires work. Yet too many citizens of republics, ancient and modern, come to believe that they deserve rights without assuming responsibilities—and they don't worry how or why or from whom they inherited their privileges.1

When ideologues cannot persuade Americans to support their agenda under the existing political rules and traditions of the nation, they seek to alter them for their own advantage—often by redefining citizenship as something never envisioned by the Founders.

History also is mostly the story of noncitizenship.

Ne soyons plus anglais ni français ni allemands. Soyons européens. Ne soyons plus européens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanité. Il nous reste à abdiquer un dernier égoïsme : la patrie.

patriotism is not enough.