Quotes About Citizens

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.