#govern

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

#comes #confidence #down #fight #first

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. ↗

— Chris Rock

#pay #take #taxes #you

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#government #i #i believe #i believe that #master

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. ↗

— Voltaire

#butchers #governments #need #shepherds

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ↗

— James Madison

#afraid #armed #arms #being #citizens

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#expanded #government #improved #increased #information

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#cooperation #government #must #plan #succeed

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ↗

— Werner Finck

#eat #everybody #government #nobody #table

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#ideas #internet #open-government #writing #change

[A]ll government was instituted for the good of the people, and... when it no longer answers this end, and they are in danger of slavery, or great oppression, they have a right to change it. ↗

— James Iredell

#change