Guided by this, I might enter into a new field of Naturalizing and say to those who might, in excitement, be tempted to do otherwise, "Look at your traps before lifting them."
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Nor is the idea unpleasing, which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of Naturalizing American bottoms, and American citizens in France and in its foreign possessions.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
The law concerning Naturalizing strangers is of doubtful character; he permitted only those to be made free of Athens who were in perpetual exile from their own country, or came with their whole family to trade there; this he did, not to discourage strangers, but rather to invite them to a permanent participation in the privileges of the government; and, besides, he thought those would prove the more faithful citizens who had been forced from their own country, or voluntarily forsook it.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh