Quotes About Citizens

The national government belongs to the whole American people,

The punishment for being a Jew in the Reich crossed the line into barbarism. They were being hunted down like wild animals. What made it so sickening was that it wasn't perpetrated by a bunch of ignorant half-naked savages, but the citizens of a nation renowned for its culture and intelligence that had produced men like Goethe and Beethoven.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; - Politique aux autres temps.)

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.

Martin knew nothing about America, or he would have known perfectly well that if its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would rightly appal them if it did.

In executing the duties of my present important station I can promise nothing but purity of intentions — and in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence; if these, under the guidance of a superintending Providence, shall continue to me the approbation and affection of my fellow-citizens of the Union, it will be the highest gratification and the most ample reward that my mind can form any conception of in this life.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Polis citizens, Yatima decided, were creatures of mathematics; it lay at the heart of everything they were, and everything they could become.

What's government for if not to help those in need?' 'The Government help those in need?' I cried. 'My God, man! What country are you living in?

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)—interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree.

The functions of governments necessarily increase in proportion as the indifference and helplessness of the citizens grow.

Taken separately, the men of the Convention were enlightened citizens of peaceful habits. United in a crowd, they did not hesitate to give their adhesion to the most savage proposals, to guillotine individuals most clearly innocent, and, contrary to their interests, to renounce their inviolability and to decimate themselves.

Even after California became part of Mexico upon the country's independence from Spain, the region's inhabitants thought of themselves differently from their fellow Mexican citizens—they were gente de razón (people of reason), a term that distinguished them from the Indians or those of mixed blood, frequently called cholos.

It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed.

It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed. If war doesn't bring starvation

La ilusión de que el dinero público puede pagar la democracia debe ser revisada radicalmente. La sociedad toda debe pagar por su democracia, no sólo el erario público.

Se puede tener un Estado barato con pocas obligaciones o un Estado caro con muchas. En México pretendemos tener un Estado barato con muchas obligaciones.

Todos somos de algún modo clientes y víctimas del Estado deficitario. No queremos pagar lo que cuesta nuestro gobierno. Por eso tenemos un Estado en quiebra que, a la larga, simplemente nos cuesta más.