Quotes About Citizenship

Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.

An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.

In future, migrants desiring to enter our State will need to be registered and their personal details and identification proof will have to be submitted to the police station.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Every day I walk down the street or hop on the subway, I am reminded that I am a citizen of a very big, incredibly diverse world.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

God—I don't know why—wanted me to be a Czech. It was not my choice. But I accept it, and I try to do something for my country because I live here.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Teddy Roosevelt, during the First World War, used to talk about hyphenated Americans. He was talking about German-Americans who had a divided allegiance, and he said, "If you're an American and something else, you're not an American.