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“I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.”

World Feels School America Born Citizens England Belgium Switzerland

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”

“Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.”

Years Looks Stills Might Lasts Given Citizens England Privacy Given Up American Citizens Right To Privacy

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.”

World Born Citizens Hollywood England International Russia Touring Switzerland

Author:Peter Ustinov

“We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.”

Fall Justice Liberty Citizens Gratitude England France Agency Sober Good Will Monarchy Republicanism Subservience

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.”

People World Found Five Human Nature Changed Citizens Percent England Criminals Australia New World Ninety Surroundings Colony

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.”

Men Trying Enough Beautiful Loses Rights Produce Serious Citizens England Insulting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)