Quotes About Citizenship

Oscar Handlin has said, "Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. In the same sense we cannot really speak of a particular immigrant contribution to America, because All Americans have been immigrants or the decedents of immigrants, even the Indians as mentioned before, migrated to the American continent. We can only speak of people whose roots in America are older or newer.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

Jangan tanyakan apa yang negara ini berikan kepadamu tapi tanyakan apa yang telah kamu berikan kepada negaramu.

He said it as if 'very rich' was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

Because of their sacrifice, she had been given the gift of citizenship, a permanent status she had done nothing to earn. They had worked like dogs in a country they were proud of, with the dream of one day belonging. How, exactly, would their removal benefit this great nation of immigrants? It made no sense and seemed unjustly cruel.

patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM," Owen said.

THE PRESIDENT IS ELECTED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION; TO PUT THAT MORE BROADLY, HE'S CHOSEN TO UPHOLD THE LAW—HE'S NOT GIVEN A LICENSE TO OPERATE ABOVE THE LAW, HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE OUR EXAMPLE!" Remember that? Remember then?

In short,I might take seriously the idea of service to my country when my country begins to demonstrate that it gives a shit about me!

My becoming a Canadian citizen was part of the plot.

Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: "We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

To contribute to the war effort, citizens across the country endured the "meatless days" during the week, the one "wheatless meal" every day.

Wilson declared, "It isn't an army we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.