Citizenship sayings

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◆ The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

- Justice Louis D Brandeis99

◆ 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.

- Blythe Danner99

◆ Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world

- Diogenes99

◆ 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 defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

- Andrew Jackson99

◆ Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States

- Horace Gray99

◆ For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

- Pico Iyer99

◆ In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

- Idi Amin Dada99

◆ The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

- Gunter Grass99

◆ I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

- Socrates99

◆ Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Citizenship consists in the service of the country

- Jawaharlal Nehru99

◆ If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

- Abraham Lincol99

◆ A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world.

- Andrew Gaines99

◆ We're all citizens of the womb, before we subdivide into sexes and shades- this side, that side.

- Ani Difranco99

◆ Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it

- Mark Twain99