A Quote by Ryan Shapiro
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.
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Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?
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Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.
