Citizen Control Quotes

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Big government makes small citizens.

A democracy doesn’t use force to control its citizens; it uses propaganda instead.

We're not the bosses of taxpayers; they're ours.

Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

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

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

No error is more common than to confound democracy as an element in national character with democracy as a form of government.… Now the two are not only not identical, but they are not even necessarily coexistent. By the former we understand that spirit in a people which leads them to demand equality among citizens and a substantial control over their own affairs; by the latter, a system in which the people pronounce directly on all the details of government.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

The Sovereign: The People

A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.

The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.