Quotes About Citizens

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.