Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of…

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

— Alfred W. Crosby

We do not only have a Turkish side, inherited from our parents and our families, we were born and raised in Gelsenkirchen. It is…

— Ilkay Gundogan

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made…

— Paul Keating

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in…

— George Francis Train

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they…

— Thomas Paine

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Doseljenici su, otkrio je to posmatrajući tetku i teču, a docnije je to primetio i kod sebe, razapeti između svojih maštarija. Budućnost uvek dolazi…

— Vladimir Tasić

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States…

— Ivan Krastev

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

— James Monroe

“the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But it was all a pipe dream. As well try to stop an avalanche as to stop the moving frontier. American immigrants and emigrants…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

Numerous emigrants, of every lineage and language, attracted by the civil and religious freedom we enjoy and by our happy condition, annually crowd to…

— James K Polk

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point…

— Francis Parkman

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the…

— Aberjhani

“I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]”

— Maria Martin