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 […]
People Quotes
My only wish is… to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of this world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are “half animal, half angel” into persons, into whole persons.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order. . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure.
Now let all of us who are moderate, reasonable, fair-minded, balanced and normal, lift up our voices and give thanks to all those who are immoderate, unreasonable, bloody-minded, unbalanced and crazy; because without them as our context it is we who should be the abnormal ones. If all 3,500 million people in the world who […]
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.
There is but one element of government, and that is the people. From this element spring all governments. For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she will it. For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.
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.
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.
