You (the people) are a many-headed beast.
People Quotes
There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’
I like people who keep me on my toes, so I like to keep people on their toes as well. I don’t like to think that I go through life terrifying everybody I meet, but it can lighten up an evening sometimes.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
Ours is the first government made by the people for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have nothing to do.
My idea of a disagreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people.
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which sieze the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration.
The people are in their nature so gentle, that there never was a government yet in which thousands of mistakes were not overlooked. The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government, that there are no instances of resistance, until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt, that their rulers […]
