Quotes About Citizens

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

24 If so, the more resources that are invested in education, the more stratified society will become. If education is going to create and widen disparities between citizens, it must take care to inculcate some commonalities. Otherwise, links of shared values and understandings will become dangerously attenuated.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

My brother says the Broken has a city in this exact same spot. According to him, its citizens have an unhealthy fascination with pirates," Richard said.

A nation is not (like the ground on which it is located) a possession. It is a society of men whom no one other than the nation itself can command or dispose of.

Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he followed, alive; his country he served, dying. Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their consciences!

Do not forget that every people deserves the government it is willing to endure!

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

CâÈ›i p?mânteni nu reacÈ›ioneaz? printr-o ur? oarb? fa?? de toÈ›i cet??enii galactici, f?r? deosebire? E o boal? aproape universal? - ur? pentru ur?. Doresc concet??enii dumneavostr? cu adev?rat egalitate, toleran?? reciproc?? Nu! Cei mai mulÈ›i nu vor decât s? se-ntoarc? roata, aducându-i pe ei deasupra.

All authority belongs to the people.

The people are the city.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow, with its head in the clouds eating air, and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to illegal immigrants such as in-state tuition rates. This approach is best for American citizens and is fair to those who have taken the time and effort to go through the legal immigration process.

We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure where they are in Turkey.

In Israel, we are sorry for the loss of life of Turkish citizens in May 2010, when Israel confronted a provocative flotilla of ships bound for Gaza. I am sure that the proper way to express these sentiments to the Turkish government and the Turkish people can be found.

I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?

Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.