Quotes About Citizens

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered peoples savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

Paranoid nationalism may well be an intellectual void, and appeal to the lowest instincts—there is nothing in North Korean ideology that a child of twelve cannot grasp at once—but for that very reason it has proven itself capable of uniting citizens of all classes, and inspiring them through bad times as well as good ones.

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

Our respect for culture and diversity and arts is very low because we only focused on building the economy. But now as we have reached modernization... many citizens can display their potential for arts and culture and I believe that's why Psy has become so popular.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

We all need a government that solves our real problems and is not preoccupied with itself.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.