Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.
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