Quotes About Citizens

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government is a necessary evil

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

Donald Trump represents and speaks for people who get nothing from government.

People, your Government has returned to you!

A strong government is where the will of the people matters, where the voice of the people is heard and where the dreams of the people are fulfilled.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

Governments don't control people like they used to.

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

What is government but theft by consent?

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Every nation has the government that it deserves.