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> [Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-thatcher/citizenship-should-be-based-on-those-who-have-a-close-and-real/)

[Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-thatcher/)

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> [The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/the-importation-of-foreigners-into-a-country-that-has-as-many/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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