Eric Liu Quotes About Citizenship

Quotes about: Citizenship

• The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

  Eric Liu

  Special, Denial, Weapons

• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

  Eric Liu

  Commitment, Order, Indulge In

• True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

  Eric Liu

  Community, Degrees, Cooperation

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books

• To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Mean, Citizenship

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.35, Sasquatch Books

• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.

  Eric Liu

  Love, Country, Children

• At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no greater citizen than she who sacrifices; and that there is no greater measure of worth than contribution. These are values we can be proud of. After all, there is no moral system or religion on earth where the guiding ethic is grab more for yourself.

  Eric Liu

  Heart, Sacrifice, Ideas

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.34, Sasquatch Books

• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Believe, Self

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

• Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

  Eric Liu

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, People

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.89, Sasquatch Books

• Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

  Eric Liu

  Rights, Citizenship, Forget

• You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

  Eric Liu

  Class, Citizens, Paper

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