Citizenry Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizenry Informed citizenry Informed citizens
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I fundamentally believe that keeping the public informed is an essential part of democracy. — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe. — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote… — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know. — Roy Barnes 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