Quotes About Citizenship

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

I want to be crystal clear that everyone has an equal stake in our society and in the future of our country. That is what I believe, and it is what I have always believed.

For most Democrats, politics is sports to them because they have no stakes because they don't pay tax.

Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.

If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.

Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

When the Pledge of Allegiance, the songs of this country, anything is played - we should be standing up. Hand over our hearts. Saluting, if you're in the military... That's the way I feel about it. And, that's what I think everybody should do including all the NFL players.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.

All I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

There needs to be an allegiance to the United States and what this country stands for.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.