Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like…

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal…

— Abraham Lincoln

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole…

— T.S. Mathews

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

— Barack Obama

My father and mother brought me to this country to escape communism and to provide me with the security, opportunity and pride that American…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I was an extreme leftist-anarchist. Now, I guess I'm a European socialist who's locked into American citizenship, without complaint.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

— Sarah Vowell

“Consider the various ways in which Trump’s campaign represented a one-man campaign against established knowledge. He was one of the original “birthers” who demanded…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures, and that means not only informed and responsible…

— 1944 Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court

You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a…

— Lou Barletta

I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures were in…

— Stephen M. Ward

“Though Article II requires “natural born” citizenship, the Constitution does not explain what the phrase means. There was no constitutional definition of American citizenship…

— Garrett Epps

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British,…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself…

— Hamish Bowles

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we…

— Barack Obama