Quotes About Citizenship

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Não existem patriotas em filas de hospitais.

Martha C. Nussbaum's manifesto Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Why not a new village of farmers, citizens of the world through schools and radio and space-consuming transportation, grouped together in friendly sociability, building directly upon the soil?

Proposing an immigration policy that serves America's interests should not require an apology.

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

Anchor babies are "citizens" only because of a phony constitutional principle cooked up by Justice William Brennan in 1982. Just like abortion, sodomy, gay marriage, and unicorns—it's in the Constitution!

for most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country. That endowment is being bartered away by our elites in exchange for votes, for profits, or for campaign dollars.

Okay, fine. You won't vote for us, America? We tried this the easy way, but you give us no choice. We're going to overwhelm you with new voters from the Third World.

About a third of pre-1965 immigrants went home—except British and Jewish immigrants, less than 10 percent of whom returned.17 Now no one goes home, they go on welfare. Today's immigrants aren't coming here to breathe free, they're coming to live for free.

In 2003, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in Stockton's San Joaquin General Hospital's maternity ward were anchor babies.14 By 2013, Stockton was bankrupt. Any politician who opposed our insane anchor baby policy would be smugly denounced by the New York Times—and wouldn't lose a single vote.

Hispanics will never vote for Republicans unless they pass amnesty. First of all, moron Republicans: If they can't vote, they can't vote against you.

Although we've been authoritatively informed that a majority of Americans support a "pathway to citizenship," approximately five hundred times in the last two years alone, according to a quick Nexis search,18 that is a lie. This is part of the media's campaign to convince Americans they're nuts for preferring not to turn America into Mexico. Polls are irrelevant if you lie to the people being polled.

necessary to discuss the phenomenon. Quoting a California nurse who told the Times she had delivered "hundreds of anchor babies," the New York Times quickly added that she was using "a derisive term to describe children whose parents did not hold citizenship.

Es que el otro día leí en El Tiempo que los colombianos no tenemos educación política. Por eso a mí me gusta sacar el tema de vez en cuando, a ver qué aprendo. —Pues no sé, el problema es que yo también soy colombiano.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

I revere the Bill of Rights, but at the same time I believe that anyone who's using three or more of them at a time is hogging them too much. (152)

As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all of us.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. So when my friends Joel and Stephen and I play hooky from our jobs in the middle of the afternoon to play Pop-A-Shot in a room full of children, I like to think we are not procrastinators; we are patriots pursuing happiness.

The sense in which Goethe was right: Continued life means expectation, Death is the abolition of choice. The more choice is limited, the closer we are to death. The greatest cruelty is to curtail expectations without taking away life completely. A life term in prison is like that. So is citizenship in some countries. The best solution would be to live as if the ordinary expectations had not been removed, not from day to day, blindly. But that requires immense self-mastery.

We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.

A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.