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4. “As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Citizenship, Patriotism, Pride, Freedom, Identity
5. “I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.” Arnold Schwarzenegger America, Patriotism, Citizenship, Pride, Gratitude
12. “The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.” George Washington Liberty, Citizenship, Rights, Policy, Freedom
14. “I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” George Washington Religious Freedom, Citizenship, Worship, Accountability, Conscience
15. “Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” George Washington Citizenship, Patriotism, Affection, National Identity, Local Discrimination
19. “They teach us that the supreme act of citizenship is to choose among savior, by going into a voting booth every four years to choose between two white and well-off Anglo-Saxon males of inoffensive personality and orthodox opinions.” Howard Zinn Citizenship, Voting, Democracy, Political System, Societal Structure
22. “Born as I was the citizen of a free state and a member of its sovereign body, the very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs, however little influence my voice may have in them.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Citizenship, Duty, Education, Democracy, Civic Responsibility
24. “From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Life, Citizenship, Duty, Education, Moral Responsibility
32. “I’d hate to see something like this get in his way, but a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, that the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada and he has a double passport.” Donald Trump Politics, Ted Cruz, Controversy, Citizenship, Debates
34. “A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century – and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.” Noam Chomsky State Power, Citizenship, Activism, Political Awareness, Social Responsibility
50. “Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.” Orson Scott Card Citizenship, Childhood, Freedom, Authority, Duty, Personal Exploration
Citizenship Quotes by Famous Authors
4. “As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger Citizenship, Patriotism, Pride, Freedom, Identity
5. “I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger America, Patriotism, Citizenship, Pride, Gratitude
12. “The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.”
George Washington Liberty, Citizenship, Rights, Policy, Freedom
14. “I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.”
George Washington Religious Freedom, Citizenship, Worship, Accountability, Conscience
15. “Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
George Washington Citizenship, Patriotism, Affection, National Identity, Local Discrimination
19. “They teach us that the supreme act of citizenship is to choose among savior, by going into a voting booth every four years to choose between two white and well-off Anglo-Saxon males of inoffensive personality and orthodox opinions.”
Howard Zinn Citizenship, Voting, Democracy, Political System, Societal Structure
22. “Born as I was the citizen of a free state and a member of its sovereign body, the very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs, however little influence my voice may have in them.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Citizenship, Duty, Education, Democracy, Civic Responsibility
24. “From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Life, Citizenship, Duty, Education, Moral Responsibility
32. “I’d hate to see something like this get in his way, but a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, that the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada and he has a double passport.”
Donald Trump Politics, Ted Cruz, Controversy, Citizenship, Debates
34. “A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century – and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.”
Noam Chomsky State Power, Citizenship, Activism, Political Awareness, Social Responsibility
50. “Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.”
Orson Scott Card Citizenship, Childhood, Freedom, Authority, Duty, Personal Exploration
