Citizenry Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizenry Defense Informed citizenry Tyranny Well Informed Citizenry Wells
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for… — Randal Marlin 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
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — 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
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
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