People Quotes

The people who boast the loudest of carrying their cross are never around when man cries for help.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad.

People do what works.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed.

People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound!