No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it… My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
People Quotes
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.
I remember one evening sitting with a lot of men in the Coffee House in New York – we had all been drinking, carousing – rather cheap actresses, magazine illustrators, popular painters, popular novelists. A pretty bad lot in general, sold out and all that, but suddenly I found myself saying to myself, “These are […]
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
When you arrive at a fork in the road take it.
How distant I am from the people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favor of the […]
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
The people is a beast of muddy brain That knows not its own strength.
I shall on all subjects have policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people.
