The cross people carry to-day is made of gold or set with diamonds.
People Quotes
No government can continue good but under the control of the people.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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.
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 […]
