Citizenry Quote by Thomas Jefferson

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

— Barbara

It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed,…

— Calvin Coolidge

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

— Thomas Jefferson

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly…

— Alan Keyes

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and…

— H. L. Mencken

“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge…

— H.L. Mencken

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right…

— Peter Fraser

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society…

— Charles Colson

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— John Dewey

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

— Phillip E. Johnson

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the…

— Anonymous

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson