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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
— George Will
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
— Thaddeus Stevens
The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism ...
— Thomas Jefferson
Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
— Vladimir Putin
The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
— Bob Riley
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
— James Madison
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
— Thomas Jefferson
What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?
— Jeff Cooper
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
— Thomas Jefferson
Hence, in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens
— Aristotle.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
— Ray Stannard Baker
The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
— Ibrahim Babangida
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
— Thomas Jefferson
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.
— Marvin Ammori
Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
— William Earl Maxwell
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
— Martha Gellhorn
We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.
— Donald Tusk
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
— John Maynard Keynes
I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
— Helen Prejean
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
— James Bryce
Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.
— John Pugsley
And we're to accept that the government can dictate the moral beliefs of all its citizens?
— William Leisner
Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
— E.C. Riegel
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
— James Madison
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
— Gore Vidal
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
— Thomas Jefferson