"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.
"Many things claimed as uniquely American, a devotion to individual freedom, for example, or social opportunity, exist in other countries. But birthright citizenship does make the United States unique in the developed world. No European nation recognizes the principle."
"Good roads, good schools and good churches are a sure sign of the best citizenship produced by a free republic. How about our roads?"
"If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species. If citizenship means an oath of loyalty to a leader, then I choose the leader of the trees. If good citizens agree to uphold the laws of the nation, then I choose natural law, the law of reciprocity, of regeneration, of mutual flourishing."
"Our government was designed to be run by informed, engaged citizens. We have an incredibly dangerous form of government for people who dont know how it works."
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight"
"In time of trouble we are citizens. Shall we be citizens in war, and aliens in peace? Would that be just?"