Citizenry Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizenry Defense Educated Nations
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security. — Mark Hatfield Copy Share Image
The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader… — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image