Quotes About Citizens

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

For we put the power in the people.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

Don't we, the ordinary citizens of our country who are aware of the threat, realize the elites will take care of their own no matter what happens?

At the heart of this phenomenon, Fourth Generation war,4 lies not a military evolution but a political, social, and moral revolution: a crisis of legitimacy of the state. All over the world, citizens of states are transferring their primary allegiance away from the state to other entities: to tribes, ethnic groups, religions, gangs, ideologies, and "causes." Many people who will no longer fight for their state are willing to fight for their new primary loyalty.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

the far right where politicians are spending so much energy harvesting votes these days is not Australia. Nearly all of us are somewhere else, scattered around the centre, waiting for a government that will take this good, prosperous, generous country into the future.