#citizen

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#america #citizens #could #duty #effort

We care little about what the average citizen thinks. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#average #care #citizen #little #thinks

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens. ↗

— John Mica

#before #citizens #come #control #database

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#american #citizen #concept #counted #democracy

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#citizen #dangerous #democracy #oligarchy #prince

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#govern #i #independent #israel #own

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#both #canadian #citizen #countries #feel

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. ↗

— Elinor Ostrom

#citizens #correct #information #resources #sometimes

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#endangers #hands #nation #property #remain