Quotes About Citizenship

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

I love my country, not my government.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.