Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

All persons born in the United States ... are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

It is better to be the subject of a prince than of a republic, for a republic keeps its subjects under, and gives no share of its greatness save to its own citizens; a prince is common to all, one man is as much his subject as another, therefore every one can hope to be favoured or employed.

Privileges tied to nobility, titles and rank may not be enacted.

…the transmission of…property from generation to generation in the same name raised up a distinct set of families who, being privileged by law in the perpetuation of their wealth were thus formed into a Patrician order.

A Japanese alien, even if he has lived here for forty years, cannot become a citizen if he wants to. But a Japanese child born here becomes one whether he wishes to or not. Obviously, it is absurd to deny citizenship to Japanese aliens on the ground of race when we force it upon their children.

I don't think it's appropriate for people who are citizens of Massachusetts to be waiting in line when folks who aren't citizens access benefits.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.

To their entertainments princes invite only the nobility; but when they meet with misfortune, they invite also citizens.

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy-

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

There is a citizenship of the United States, and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each other, and which depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the individual.

Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada.