American Citizenship Quotes

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  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

  Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• 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

  Country, Brother, Community

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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

  Phyllis Schlafly

  War, Precious Possessions, World

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• 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.

  T.S. Mathews

  Silly, Men, People

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• The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Loyalty, Country, Tests

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

  Jackie Robinson

  Class, Issues, Democracy

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

  Nat King Cole

  Rights, Citizens, Feels

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

  Sarah Vowell

  Voting, Paying Taxes, Citizenship

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jackie Robinson

  Country, African American

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Country, Real, Home

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• 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.

  Lou Barletta

  Believe, Home, Talking

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Library, Cards, Citizenship

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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