Quotes about Citizens
We call laws just from three perspectives: (1) from their end, namely, when they are ordained for the common good; (2) from their authority, namely, when the laws enacted do not surpass the power of the lawmakers; (3) from their form, namely, when they impose proportionately equal burdens on citizens for the common good.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The welfare of the people is the highest law
- Cicero
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.
- Thomas Jefferson
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences
- Thomas Jefferson
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
The strength of government does not consist of anything within itself, but in the attachment of a nation, and the interest which a people feel in supporting it.
- Thomas Paine
The right of war and peace is in the nation. where else should it reside but in those who are to pay the expense?
- Thomas Paine
The government of a free country, properly speaking, is not in the persons, but in the laws.
- Thomas Paine
And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;
- Thomas Paine
The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.
- Will Rogers
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
- Donald Trump