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“Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.”

Hard Would Be Cities New York Son Birth Citizens Daughter Chicago Cousin Oklahoma Orlando Honolulu Oklahoma City

Author:Luis A. Ferre

“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.”

Giving Long Parent Land Food Birth Citizens Giving Up Loyalty Seats Attachment Patriotic Stomach American Citizens Hold Fast

Book:It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum

Source: It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum

“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.”

Has Beens Term Rights Birth Citizens Equal Protection Distinction Native Entitled Precise Adopted Equal Rights Equal Protection

Author:James K. Polk

“Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.”

“It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.”

Helping Social Responsibility Vision Birth Citizens India Clean Social Responsibility Gandhiji

Author:Narendra Modi

“It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.”

Parent Birth Citizens Location Sovereign Consent Citizenship Implied Jurisdiction

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.”

States Found Black Cities New York Birth Citizens New York City Flags Shelter Refugee Intrigue Exile Nationality Nests Improbable Juxtaposition

Author:Luc Sante

“As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.”

Littles Enough Birth Citizens Lucky

Author:Eric Liu

“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”

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Book:Declaration of Independence ... with the Names, Places of Residence, &c. of the Signers. Constitution of the United States ...: Also, Address of George Washington ... on Declining Being Considered a Candidate for Their Future Suffrages. September 17, 1796

Source: Declaration of Independence ... with the Names, Places of Residence, &c. of the Signers. Constitution of the United States ...: Also, Address of George Washington ... on Declining Being Considered a Candidate for Their Future Suffrages. September 17, 1796