#citizen

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#freedom #government #participation #politics #responsibility

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

#classes #criminal #good #good citizens #government

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. ↗

— Joel Barlow

#because #citizens #people #safety

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#citizens #ever #government #scrutinize #should

Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#any #broke #citizen #citizens #defend

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#education #get #good #good education #higher

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#citizen #instrument #keeps #kind #law

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#citizens #core #fellow #fellow human beings #game

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#becoming #been #citizen #consequently #diminished