Quotes About Citizens

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

The holy country is occupied by holy citizens.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

All power is inherent in the people.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.

There is two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let him act on a committee, and the other is promise him to let him walk in a parade. What America needs is to get more mileage out of our parades.

Come then, ye generous citizens, range yourselves under the standard of General Liberty, against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail. General