Quotes About Citizenship

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

It isn't life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for some - it is declared for all of us. So let's celebrate America by defending the right to vote - for every eligible citizen, everywhere in America.

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.

What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.

Our politics is about people not flags.

Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.

For those who are here illegally and not following the rules, we need to send them home.

Beyond being a footballer, I am a citizen.

Like anything, I remember who I work for. You work for the people who sent you to office.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

I was born in a free country, which seeked to encourage freedom and justice for all. I want to be a part of that process, just like any other Indian.

We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.