Citizens Quote by James Cook

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

— Samuel Johnson

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

— Edmund Burke

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

— Samuel Adams

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

— Ethel Smyth

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

— Patrick Henry

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

— Oliver Ellsworth

The era of resisting big government is never over.

— Paul Gigot

The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

— Theodore Beale

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger