Citizenry Quotes
73 quotes by 60 authors
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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
— David Brin
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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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…
— Sharron Angle
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority…
— William E. Simon
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[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
— H. L. Mencken
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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…
— Adolf Hitler
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a…
— Joseph Sobran
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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in…
— Jeff Cooper
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The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral…
— Jeff Cooper
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Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
— Ronald Reagan
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In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedomwhen people all over the…
— Tim Robbins
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An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart…
— John F. Kennedy
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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…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before
— Dahr Jamail
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One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.
— Stefan Halper
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History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A…
— Glenn Greenwald
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No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear…
— Glenn Greenwald
Who Wrote These Citizenry Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 73 Citizenry Quotes, led by these top contributors: