Asks Quote by Ronald Reagan

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for…

— Warren G. Harding

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.

— Jan Tinbergen

“once the citizenry acquiesces to a new power, believing that it does not affect them, it becomes institutionalized and legitimized and objection becomes impossible.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

— Winnie Byanyima

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the…

— Charles Koch

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

— Edith Stein

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done…

— Frank Herbert

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

— Ian Goldin

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…

— Thomas Jefferson