Helen Prejean Quotes

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

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.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

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.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

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

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.

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

An owner’s right to exclude others from his property is the means by which he can avoid “bads” from happening: events that will lower the value of his property. By means of an unceasing flood of redistributive legislation, the democratic state has worked relentlessly not only to strip its citizens of all arms (weapons) but also to strip domestic property owners of their right of exclusion, thereby robbing them of much of their personal and physical protection.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

We must remember that the people do not belong to the government but that government belongs to the people.

The right to speak freely concerning functions of the Federal Government is a privilege of immunity of every citizen of the United States which, even before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, a State was powerless to curtail.

Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience