50 Quotes About Citizenship

Citizenship is the bond that binds a person to a nation to which they owe loyalty and are thus entitled to its protection.

Citizenship is a need for having complete political rights and freedom. A citizen is someone who generally actively participates in a political society.

Meeting the legal criteria of a national, state, or municipal authority results in citizenship. Citizens of a country are given specific benefits and rights. They are required to uphold their nation's laws and protect it from outside threats in return.

Citizenship has different values in different countries. Citizenship in various democratic nations may include, among other things, the ability to vote, the right to hold public office, and the right to receive unemployment benefits.

According to the laws of certain nations, citizenship has a more defined definition and relates to rights and obligations that may only be carried out on the national territory or after reaching the age of maturity. These citizenship quotes for students will surely make you feel inspired.

"Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live."

–  Robert A. Heinlein.

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."

- William Lloyd Garrison.

"In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court."

- William Barr.

"We should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted."

– Jane D. Hull.

"Good government is no substitute for self-government."

- Mohandas K. Gandhi.

"The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen."

– Frank Newman.

"The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen."

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis.

"Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong."

– Charles Handy.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

- Abraham Lincoln.

"Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, shares the race’s mind and enfranchises his own soul."

– John Finley.

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."

- Thomas Jefferson.

"A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world."

– Andrew Gaines.

(These citizenship quotes by famous people will make you feel positive.)

Read these famous citizenship quotes to feel inspired and motivated.

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

- Thomas Paine.

"Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy."

- Robert Kennedy.

"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."

– Nelson Mandela.

"Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles."

– Dennis Kucinich.

"Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society."

– Koïchiro Matsuura.

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."

- Albert Einstein.

"This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are."

- Plato.

"I honestly feel like it’s our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part."

– Solange Knowles.

"The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community."

– Norman Cousins.

"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."

- Gunter Grass.

"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing."

- Archibald MacLeish.

"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."

– Vaclav Havel.

"The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights."

– Thomas Jefferson.

"We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship."

– Justin Trudeau.

"A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship."

- Chrystia Freeland.

Global citizenship upholds the notion that one's identity transcends geographic and political boundaries, as these quotes state.

"Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."

- Henry Ward Beecher.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead.

"We are world citizens, but tribal chiefs won't let us cross the frontier."

- 'The Great Pearl Of Wisdom', Bangambiki Habyarimana.

"...we all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations."

- Blythe Danner.

"As global citizens, it is our responsibility to become active participants in our democracy and to make sure that everyone's civil rights are protected."

- Robert Alan Silverstein.

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

– Theodore Roosevelt.

"I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world."

- Socrates.

"A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it means to be citizens in a democracy."

- Elizabeth L. Hollander.

"A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals."

- Ralph Nader.

Being a good citizen is something everyone should strive towards, and these quotes will inspire you to do that.

"We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this."

- Woodrow Wilson.

"As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only way to peace and justice on earth. To always do the right thing, be the right person, and stand with whoever is right always and forever."

- 'Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem' Suzy Kassem.

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

- Theodore Roosevelt.

"Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before."

- Dahr Jamail.

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."

- Patrick Henry.

"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."

– Johann Lavater.

"Our true nationality is mankind."

- H.G. Wells.

"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."

- Aristotle.

"Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people’s confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being."

– David Blunkett.

"Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles."

- Dennis Kucinich.

"Our true nationality is humankind."

– H.G. Wells.

"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens, there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."

- Vaclav Havel.

"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."

- Jawaharlal Nehru.

"No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline."

- Kofi Annan.

"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country."

- Bainbridge Colby.