Quotes About Citizenship

I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!

Gil said to Elfine, "I cannot make you an American if that is what you are asking. There is an ordeal all must pass. A trial by paperwork and years of waiting.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

I have never voted in my life.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.... There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.

So how would you define a Londoner, then?" Lady Penny asked curiously. "Someone who lives here. It's like the old definition of a cockney: someone who's born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner," he added with a grin, "is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside.

Democratic hope envisions a political community where power, freedom, opportunity, and accountability reside not with elites or experts, but with everyday, ordinary people. It is anchored in the conviction that the political whole is more than the sum of the parts and must include all but be dominated by none.

The patriotic subject defines and describes not to accuse, abuse and kill the innocent ones since it violates the wide-scale task and description that, self-defense and respect; whereas, safeguard, for others as well accordingly human rights charter. The real patriotic waves and breathes not distinctions between internal and external figures and affairs. One can neither consider the criminal, terrorist, and killer, as a patriotic one nor uniform qualifies the certificate of patriotism.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

The Romans had a great general named Cincinnatus. The legend is that he had wanted to live quietly on his farm but was persuaded twice to return to public

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Each of us, ultimately, is responsible in large part for the welfare of his community, for the kind of government he has, for the world he lives in.

But the courage to go against a sweep of feeling, to be an awkward minority, to stand up and be counted, even when it makes one unpopular, is not as prevalent as it should be. We have a long way to go to achieve responsible citizenship and common self-respecting humanity.

I became a much more ardent citizen and feminist than anyone about me in the intermediate years would have dreamed possible. I had learned that if you wanted to institute any kind of reform, you could get far more attention if you had a vote than if you lacked one.

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

One can define this virtue," he wrote, "as love of the laws and of the homeland [patrie].

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

El sistema está roto», o «el gobierno está demasiado polarizado como para someterlo a una reforma severa». Sí, hay muchas cosas que los gobiernos deben hacer, pero no podemos delegar nuestra compasión a nuestro gobierno y sentarnos a un lado quejándonos del hecho de que no hace lo suficiente. Desde