Quotes About Citizens

The essence of good government is trust.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.