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Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.
— Pat Mitchell
Merriment seemed to be a favorite pastime in this country, where the citizenry take the concept of happiness very seriously.
— Eric Dinerstein
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
— Thomas Jefferson
The personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.
— Jan Morris
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
— William Blum
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so ...
— Don Kates
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.
— Mark Kingwell
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.
— David O. McKay
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
— Sherry Turkle
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
— David Blunkett
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
— Maurice Hinchey
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
— Ronald Reagan
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
— Phillip E. Johnson
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
— William Weld
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
— Marianne Williamson
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.
— Ralph Nader
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.
— Andy Andrews
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
— Rod Serling
Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.
— Iyanla Vanzant
The cradle-to-grave welfare society enfeebles the citizenry to such a degree you can never generate enough money.
— Mark Steyn
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
— Carl Sagan
As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry
— Joyce Carol Oates
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
— William Shakespeare
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
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
— Stephen King
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
— Thomas Jefferson
Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before
— Dahr Jamail
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
— Thomas Jefferson
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.
— Lawrence Hunter
And it is these heavily armed and poorly paid men who are entrusted with the work of protecting the citizenry.
— Teju Cole
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.
— Katie Couric
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
— Thomas Jefferson