citizens quotes

14 quotes

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Noam Chomsky

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Joe Biden

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Barack Obama

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

Narendra Modi

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Christopher Hitchens

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Colin Powell

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Clint Eastwood

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Noam Chomsky

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Albert Camus

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Alice Walker