Citizenry Quotes

73 Citizenry quotes by 60 unique authors

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. — William Shakespeare
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. — Thomas Jefferson
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected… — Robert Ringer
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy. — Thomas Jefferson
Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting… — Thomas Sowell
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them… — Thomas Jefferson
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. — Lawrence Hunter
Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
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 — Steven Biko
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose,… — Mark Skousen
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public… — Albert Einstein
Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers. — Pat Mitchell
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.… — Kamisese Mara
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. — Margaret Spellings
A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one. — Glenn Greenwald
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,… — Matthew Yglesias
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… — Don Tapscott
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the… — Conrad Burns
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be… — Jonathan Haidt
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a… — Jacob G. Hornberger
Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in… — Victoria Moran
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. — Phillip E. Johnson
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… — David Mamet

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