#People Quotes

“What is the city but the people?”

“The people are the city.”

“This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors”

“You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.”

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”

“Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.”

“The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.”

“Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.”

“There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.”

“[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.”

“Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.”

“A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.”

“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”

“But if you put your thoughts on what's on its way, then you'll start looking for every little clue, and every person walking into your life becomes someone who is a messenger or a deliverer of something that is going to help you deliver what you have an intention about.”

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.”

“I prefer men to cauliflowers”

“If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.”

“People are my greatest resource.”

“Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.”

“The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.”

“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”

“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

“The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.”

“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

“How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!”

“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.”

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

“I like to see the people awake and alert.”

“The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.”

“All power is inherent in the people.”

“You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”

“No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.”

“I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.”

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

“Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.”

“The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”

“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.”

“There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.”

“It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.”

“It is no use trying to sum people up.”

“Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.”

“Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.”

“When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.”