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 […]
People Quotes
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.
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.
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 […]
