Citizenship Quotes - Page 5

• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, Perfect, Healthy

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• Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

  Dahr Jamail

  Independent, Media, Healthy

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• [American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

  Barack Obama

  Country, Ideas, Generations

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.

  Ted Cruz

  Views, Waiting, Path

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• Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Education, Should, Handmaids

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Identity, Cards

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

  Hedy Lamarr

  White, House, Experts

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• 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

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• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Government, Attachment

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: containing his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military”, p.776

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• Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Educational, Principles, Use

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• Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

  Herb Kawainui Kane

  Differences, People, Resources

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• 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

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• 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

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• The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Flags, He Man

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• 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

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• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  Taylor Branch

  Doors, Race, Government

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

  John Noble Holcomb

  Loss, Impact, Volunteer

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• Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Team, Humanity, Transition

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• For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Rights, Ideas

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• Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

  Erwin McManus

  Eternity, Residence, Temporary

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “McManus 2-in-1 (Soul Cravings, Barbarian Way)”, p.94, Harper Collins

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• The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

  Roger Scruton

  Gratitude, Government, Apathy

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• Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle to the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples and the sacredness of creation.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Technology, Circles, Full Circle

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• Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

  Charles S. Maier

  Real, Long, Profound

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• Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

  George Leef

  Book, College, Students

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