Quotes About Citizens

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

The one thing our nation needs desperately is law-abiding citizens, not just those who abide by human laws but those who abide by divine laws. Our

Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don't. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form of government.

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

Over the past decade or so we have witnessed a fundamental change in the way our government sees itself. We have become a mirror-image of the old Soviet Union and China models, where the people exist to serve the state. Today, in America, our leaders do not believe they work for us—rather, they see themselves as queen bees, ensconced in Washington, while we workers devote our lives to paying taxes. We are nothing more than pollen collectors to them. And, if need be, we are disposable.

Are you a serious player, or just someone larking and larping around, and trying on different dresses as you eat your vegan pseudo-burgers – the meat without the meat, the thing without the thing? Citizens, do you want the revolution without the revolution? Well?

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

The church is not a political society and will never be one, but its mission is to point to one peculiar and ultimate political society: a kingdom of citizens who freely obey and follow their King, who live in a city of which their Lord is the light.

Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

To improve a country, educate the citizens.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need

De la libertad se puede prescindir. De hecho es lo primero de lo que los ciudadanos con miedo están dispuestos a prescindir. Tanto que a menudo exigen perderla, que se la quiten, no volver a verla ni en pintura, nunca más, y así aclaman a quien va a arrebatársela y después votan por él.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

The solid citizens going by, who make up the crowd, see nothing, know nothing. They are scarcely, imperceptibly, dislodged from their calm state of confidence by the trivial event: Divine being led away by the arm, and her sisters who bewail her.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

If we gauge societies in light of the developmental maturity of their citizens, we see very little difference, even between extremes. One society may be, on average, slightly further along than another, but the reality is that no society has advanced beyond the stage where girls play dress-up and boys torture frogs.

Geuze compared sea-level rise to other transformative catastrophes, such as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a partly man-made natural disaster that profoundly changed the geography of America and also expanded the role government plays in ensuring the long-term welfare of even the most vulnerable people. "We're going to need a new New Deal," Geuze argued. "It is going to require a rethinking of the social contract between governments and citizens.

Nobody likes congestion, and, despite appearances, I am not arguing here for more of it. Rather, I am asking that it be better understood by those who build and rebuild our communities, so that we can stop making stupid decisions that placate angry citizens while only hurting them in the long run.

World War I killed upwards of fifteen millions, wreaked immeasurable physical, social, and psychic damage, and left most of the citizens of the belligerent powers with a deep conviction that war must in some way be prohibited.

that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. …

A defining characteristic of modern San Franciscans is our disinclination to judge fellow citizens based on their sexual habits or preferred methods of intoxication. About everything else, however, we are extra judge-y.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.