Quotes About Citizenship

The National Convention declares that slavery is abolished throughout the territory of the Republic; in consequence, all men, without distinction of color, will enjoy the rights of French citizens."37

What did former slaves become once emancipated?12 That second question is easy to miss if we assume that the only two conditions a person could occupy were either enslavement or full inclusion within the American polity complete with enjoyment of equal rights, or, in other words, citizenship as we currently conceptualize it.

citizen was someone seen by others in the community as independent, self-reliant, and capable of contributing to "the harmony, well-being, and prosperity of the community" either because of property ownership, the capability to grow or build or make things, or the ability to direct others to do so.

Now you can understand what Jesus meant in John 17:11 when He stood before the disciples and prayed, ''I'm no more in this world." He was calling those things that be not as though they were. He was also calling His citizenship in heaven. Thank God, our citizenship is not of this world.

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

We can't all be Washington, but we can all be Patriots.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card.

Our democracy needs a robust press to hold our leaders accountable and cover the important issues facing our communities. The First Amendment belongs to all of us.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3

With the end of empire, we are coming to an end of the epoch of rights. We have entered the epoch of responsibilities, which requires new, socially-minded human beings and new, more participatory and place-based concepts of citizenship and democracy.

Meiguoren! Meiguoren!

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  (Philippians 3:20) Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."  (John 18:36)

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation.

She had lived in Iceland from birth, a total of 36 years, without knowing that she had the right to live, work and vote in the USA.

I confess that during the citizenship application process the founding principles of this country have grown on me. I have come to believe in the ideal that "We the People" can come together "to form a more perfect Union". The United States represent the most awesome social experiment in the world—a melting pot of cultures, united behind the idea of living free in a democratic Republic.

the vile political rhetoric that has been ongoing in the USA for the past few years has made me doubt my reasons for becoming a U.S. citizen a few times—but not enough to change my mind. Despite what the world may think of America, the truth is that more people want to get in than want to get out.