Quotes About Citizens

Political solutions-accountable to the people and enforceable by their elected representatives- deserve another shot before we throw in the towel and settle for corporate codes, independent monitors and the privatisation of our collective rights as citizens.

The citizens of the United Kingdom did not, however, know this, for the most part. And much moralizing went along with this edict: those who followed "the rules" were lauded in the press; those who asked questions were derided as "COVID deniers" who wanted to "kill Grandma.

1857 Dred Scott decision, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not guaranteed rights as citizens and that slave status could not be outlawed by any state government.

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

All Bangladeshi citizens, including minorities and women, must feel safe and confident in exercising their right to vote.

state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them.

Tocqueville was correct in his rendition of how the Constitution was formed, but he likely never dreamed that an American president would ever send an invading army to kill some 300,000 of his own citizens in order to destroy the right of secession, a right that all of America's founding fathers held as sacrosanct and that was at the very heart of the American system of government.

Woodrow Wilson would write approvingly in his 1908 book, Constitutional Government in the United States, that "the War between the States established… this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the final judge of its own powers." 26 This was the Jeffersonians' greatest fear. Thanks to Lincoln's war, states' rights would no longer perform its most important function: protecting the citizens of the states from federal judicial tyranny.

Except for spending to protect property rights, enforce the law, and protect citizens from foreign aggressors, all government spending crowds out private spending and weakens the vitality of capitalism.

Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system; mainly they are concerned with infringing on the property rights of one (less politically powerful) group of citizens for the benefit of another (more politically powerful) group.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.

wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government