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Quotes About Citizenship

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
~ Ben Folds
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon
All good government must begin at home.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.
~ Noam Chomsky
I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.
~ Moby
Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.
~ Penelope Cruz
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.
~ Warren G. Harding
I think immigration has been one of the vital things about the growth of America. I'm the product of grandparents who all immigrated from Greece. I hope eventually we have proper immigration.
~ Jamie Dimon
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
~ Jasper Fforde
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
~ Alexander Henry
If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.
~ John Shelby Spong
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
~ Socrates
I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
~ Emo Philips
As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.
~ George W. Bush
About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.
~ George W. Bush
It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.
~ George W. Bush
Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
~ Edward Everett Hale
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?
~ Abraham Lincoln
To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid out in the Declaration of Independence and since.
~ Tim Kaine
The States are nations.
~ Daniel Webster
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
~ Douglas MacArthur