Abandon Quote by Tony Judt

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

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable…

— George Washington

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

— Aristotle

The generosity of spirit that is usually shown by advanced democracies disappears when the public feel two things: that their government is not in…

— Damian Green

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a…

— Noah Webster

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political…

— Noam Chomsky

Some vested interests have an inclination to tarnish the image of those in politics and there have been occasions when some people have fallen…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of…

— Jeb Bush

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for…

— Noah Webster

“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or…

— Walt Whitman

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will…

— Kevin Mattson