Quotes About Citizenship

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

Puerto Rico was out of time wasn't because it had no remaining strategies to continue trying to negotiate down the debt; severely limited as it was by the lack of bankruptcy protection and lack of sovereignty, it still could have lobbied the US government on humanitarian grounds. What Puerto Rico had run out of time for was the illusion that it had autonomy over its affairs, that its residents had full US citizenship, that it had anything resembling a self-directed economy.

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and… you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

One man, one vote.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

I [Paul] am… a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.

He should, at least temporarily, take the less dangerous course of acting like a private citizen.

My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.