Well Informed Citizenry Quotes

#1. The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Al Gore

#2. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

#4. Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

Dahr Jamail

#5. Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

Ralph Nader

#6. An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest.

Kenneth Eade

#8. An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible citizenry.

Pearl S. Buck

#11. We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein

#12. Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#13. Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Pat Mitchell