That was basically the largest single extension of citizenship rights in the country.

This is what our country is all about. Everybody is proud of their American citizenship and they want to do the best they can to represent that.

Before we are citizens of any nation, we are first citizens of the human race.

Even as human rights norms have steadily evolved over the past half-century, the field of citizenship has remained one of the last bastions of untrammeled state sovereignty. As a result, citizenship creates a giant loophole in the international human rights framework.

Encouraging Robert E. Lee to take a job as college president, "You might be presenting to the world in such a position an example of quiet usefulness and gentle patriotism.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world