Quotes about Citizenship

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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.

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.