American Citizenship Quotes

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  • There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

  • The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

  • Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

    Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation
  • Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.

    Silly   Men   People  
  • I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

    Rights   Citizens   Feels  
  • Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

    Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons
  • [American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

    Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.
  • You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.

    Believe   Home   Talking  
  • Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

    Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
  • I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.

    Country   Real   Home  
  • The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

    Loyalty   Country   Tests  
  • In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

  • This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

    Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications
  • One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

    Source: www.npr.org
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