Quotes About Citizens

I would suggest that a culture that views its pigs as just mechanical objects to be reprogrammed and manipulated will view its citizens the same way, and ultimately God the same way.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

Citizens know the legacy of misrule of the Congress - an economy in doldrums and an administration full of leakages.

The only people that should vote should be legal.

Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.

If you asked a Singaporean, on the one hand they'll say, 'Let us do our own things.' On the other hand, when an issue comes out, they'll ask, 'What is the government doing about it?'

Liberals consider people to be nuisances.