Quotes About Citizenship

Let me tell you something. You win life's lottery when you're born--especially if you're born in the United States, hands down the best place in the world to begin and live your life. You're an American, the envy of people around the globe. From that point on everything else is gravy--and it's all up to you.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. —Benjamin Franklin

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent.

Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty. . . It would not have come easily to the mind of such a man, as it does to political leaders today, that the young should be taught to read exclusively for the purpose of increasing their economic productivity.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

Roman] society became steadily more cosmopolitan. By 212 A.D., all inhabitants of the empire, except for slaves, were deemed to be citizens. The old Roman aristocracy was not fixated upon race and color. Wealth and literacy were what opened the doors of their urban mansions and country villas.

La primera tarea de un buen profesor debería ser reconducir la escuela y la universidad a su función esencial: no la de producir hornadas de diplomados y graduados, sino la de formar ciudadanos libres, cultos, capaces de razonar de manera crítica y autónoma.

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments—the ones abolishing slavery and guaranteeing citizenship rights—still exist, but they've been so weakened by custom, by Congress and the various state legislatures, and by recent Supreme Court decisions that they don't much matter.

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts thrive marvelously, for the prices are absurdly cheap, --a prayer for a ticket to heaven, a diploma for an honourable citizenship.

Those Americans who wholly failed to realize this ideal, who remained at the bottom of the social ladder, either consoled themselves with hopes for the future, or stole symbolical satisfaction by identifying themselves with some popular star, or gloated upon their American citizenship, and applauded the arrogant foreign policy of their government.

Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.

They are more than travel hubs: this is a special category of city-state, with a stable location, but citizens in flux.They are airport-republics...(a)n example of an extroverted system,where the constitution is spelled out on every ticket, and where one's boarding pass is one's only identification as a citizen.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Rawls also saw ethical agreement on a certain ideal of citizenship as the basis for determining principles of justice.

In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».