Quotes About Citizenship

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

In 1790 Congress had limited naturalization (acquisition of United States citizenship) to free white persons only. With minor modifications, this racial qualification for citizenship stood on the books until 1952.

Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922).

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

In Berlin his son-in-law arranged to have his furniture packed. The French obligingly transported his personal papers to Paris by diplomatic pouch. At the end of March 1933 the most original physicist of the twentieth century once again renounced his German citizenship.

There was nothing like fear to make democracy real.

We won the right to be free citizens. And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out. That's what dignity's really about, if you'll excuse me, sir.

America is ruled by laws, not mobs!

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

A committed citizens can move a country.

You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.