Citizenship Quotes - Page 6

• We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

  John Lennon

  Music, Country, Law

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Opportunity, Self, Freedom Of Speech

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• For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Government, People

  "Social Statics: Great Essays".

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• Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Christian, War, People

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• Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Watches, Citizens

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away. My hope is to see it replaced, without any bloodshed, with a democratic, secular and lay state – for example on the borders of historic Palestine – and where Palestinians and Israelis could live under equal rights of citizenship without ethnic and religious discrimination. It's a wish that I hope will soon become a reality.

  Vittorio Arrigoni

  Religious, Reality, Rights

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• 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

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• 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, Rise Above

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

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• And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.

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• I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

  George H. W. Bush

  Stars, Light, Organization

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.304, e-artnow sro

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• It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Independence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.

  William Howard Taft

  Philosophy, Character, Fundamentals

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• When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

  Jean Vanier

  Believe, Joy, Our Society

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.67, Paulist Press

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• While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of citizenship, prevented from enjoying their own, charged with violating the sacred principles of our Constitution and laws.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Men, America

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• We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Meaningful, Needs, Republic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.

  George Washington

  Country, Soldier, Liberty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, World, Deeds

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• I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, West Indies, Rocks

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• We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Nuts, Atheism, Citizens

  "One Planet, One Net" symposium, October 10, 1998.

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• I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Order, Citizens, Records

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

  Ronald Reagan

  Citizens, Public Service

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Organization, Goal

  "Obama Faith Council". www.pbs.org. February 6, 2009.

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• Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Differences, People

  Profile in The Independent Magazine, March 10, 2007.

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