Quotes About Community

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone's agenda. It should be a people's movement.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.