Quotes about Citizenship

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.

Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.