Quotes About Citizens

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.