Quotes About Citizens

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.