Citizenry Quotes

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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

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.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.

That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation

When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of the mind of such a leader.