Quotes About Citizens

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

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Jefferson felt it should be the goal of the whole nation to use education and every other means to stimulate and encourage those citizens who clearly exhibited a special talent for public service. He felt one of the greatest threats to the new government would be the day when the best qualified people refused to undertake the tedious, arduous, and sometimes unpleasant task of filling important public offices.

The assumption spreads that government best knows what is good for its people, when ultimately it does not.

Most American citizens do not think of themselves as living in an empire but instead in a great nation that mostly does good things. The occasional failing, like the toppling of a government in a violent coup or the murder of civilians in an air strike, is "not who we are.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

It is no longer a matter," says Churchill, "of the great American democracy taking military action to save us. The time has come for American citizens to take civil action to save themselves.

the Bible gives no direct advice for citizens of a democracy. Paul and Peter urged their readers to submit to authorities and honor the king, but in a democracy we the citizens are the "king.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Education, I said, and nurture: If our citizens are well educated, and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their way through all these, as well as other matters which I omit; such, for example, as marriage, the possession of women and the procreation of children, which will all follow the general principle that friends have all things in common, as the proverb says. That

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded. That is tolerably clear. And

In a city of good men, if it came into being, the citizens would fight in order not to rule, just as they now do in order to rule.

Then if the people are willing to yield , well and good; but if not, he will treat the city as the man did the mother and father: he will import new comrades and chastise it if he can; he will keep and maintain his own fatherland and once dear motherland, as the Cretans call it, in slavery under these foreigners. So this will be the final consummation of such a man's desire.

qué Estado puede subsistir, si los fallos dados no tienen ninguna fuerza y son eludidos por los particulares?

For an oracle says that when a man of brass or iron guards the State, it will be destroyed. Such is the tale; is there any possibility of making our citizens believe in it?

No debemos necesariamente convenir en que el carácter y las costumbres de un Estado se encuentran en cada uno de los individuos que lo componene, puesto que sólo por medio de ellos han podido pasar al Estado?