16 Quotes on Citizenship

• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  Author: John Shadegg

• It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

  Author: James Meredith

• 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.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

  Author: Gwen Ifill

• No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  Author: O. Henry

• Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

  Author: Martha Gellhorn

• The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

  Author: Bainbridge Colby

• Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

  Author: Tommy Chong

• Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

  Author: Linda Chavez

• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  Author: H. Brown

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