Quotes About Citizenship

y el buen gobernante en América no es el que sabe cómo se gobierna el alemán o el francés, sino el que sabe con qué elementos está hecho su país

Puedo conceder que el Gobierno desconozca al pueblo, pero creo que el pueblo conoce menos al Gobierno. Hay funcionarios inútiles, malos, si usted quiere, pero también los hay buenos y si éstos no pueden nada hacer, es porque se encuentran con una masa inerte: la población que toma poca participación en las cosas que le atañen.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

America, which he never visited, he called "that monstrous prison of freedom . . . where the most repulsive of tyrants, the populace, holds vulgar sway" and "all men are equal—equal dolts

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have," James Baldwin writes. You can't be a traitor if you've never been a citizen.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

Epictetus, a first-century Stoic philosopher, who said, "Never, when asked one's country, answer, 'I am Athenian or Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world.

Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

I remain attached to my nation.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.

In some shape or form, we do have an emotional connection to our head of state, even if, for the most part, they seem very remote.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

The CAA is not a law to remove someone from the country. Union home minister Amit Shah has said that it is to give citizenship. And I agree with it to that extent. It is to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries and not to remove anyone from the country.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His 'integration at all costs' message would, decades later, continue to influence the community's self-perception.