Quotes About Citizens

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.