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Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

we all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations. (Quote by - Blythe Danner)

The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Ask not what your country can do for yo Ask what you can do for your country. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. (Quote by - Martha Gellhorn)

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. (Quote by - William Lloyd Garrison)

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. (Quote by - Ralph Barton Perry)

Citizenship consists in the service of the country. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world (Quote by - Socrates)

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. (Quote by - Mark Steyn)

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)

As global citizens, it is our responsibility to become active participants in our democracy, and to make sure that everyone's civil rights are protected. (Quote by - Robert Alan)

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual. (Quote by - George C. Marshall)

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)

Good government is no substitute for self-government. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble. (Quote by - Isaiah Bowman)

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)

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