Quotes About Citizenship

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Obama's election had challenged many whites' central cultural assumption—that the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) was the only authentic model of citizenship.

As the law ruled out castration, a procedure had to be provided that would confer an equivalent 'sacrament' on those who wished to remain Roman citizens. It was a special problem for the archgallus, who was officially in charge of the galli but, as a Roman priest, could not be castrated.

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I really consider myself to be in a foreign country when I could go walking back to my own country right now if I wanted, and it wouldn't even take very long? Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species. If citizenship means an oath of loyalty to a leader, then I choose the leader of the trees. If good citizens agree to uphold the laws of the nation, then I choose natural law, the law of reciprocity, of regeneration, of mutual flourishing.

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Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.

the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

Only, the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

There is no greater role for a man to play than to assist in the government of a people, nor anyone lower than he who misuses that power.

You must remember, my friend, that if we leave the governing to others, then others will govern, and possibly not as we would like. In a country such as this, none of us is free of responsibility.

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

Don't you want to be a U.S. citizen?" "What?" said Thomas. "We are citizens." "Vote? You already can vote?" "Sure, back in 1924 we got the vote. After the black man, after the women. But we got the vote.

The services that the government provides to Indians might be likened to rent. The rent for use of the entire country of the United States.

This statement tallied with Washington's often expressed view that citizens had to feel before they saw—that is, they couldn't react to abstract problems, only to tangible ones.

May 12, 1784, the state legislature passed a law depriving most Loyalists of the vote for the next two years.

Loyalty to the nation ALL THE TIME. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

We were having a class on civics, talking about what makes America a great country. I said I thought one important reason is that we've all come from different places in the world and that we learn from one another.