Citizenship Quotes

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. (O. Henry)
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. View quote
Don Tapscott
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. View quote
Howard Gardner
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people. View quote
Andrew Shue
Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. View quote
Gary Miller
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. View quote
Tim Holden
Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS. View quote
Thomas Paine
There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship, we pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American Flag! View quote
Donald Trump
The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That is the art of democracy. That is the art of citizenship. View quote
Raj Patel
Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. View quote
Patrick Henry
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation. (Warren G. Harding)
In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation. View quote
Warren G. Harding
When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere. View quote
Václav Havel
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all. View quote
Charles B. Rangel
There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan