Quotes About Citizens

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.