Nor would I have it thought presumption that a person of very mean and humble station should venture to discourse and lay down rules concerning the government of Princes. For as those who make maps of countries place themselves low down in the plains to study the character of mountains and elevated lands, and place […]
People Quotes
In Beverly Hills, they have real jewelry and fake people. In West Virginia, we have fake jewelry but real people.
The cross people carry to-day is made of gold or set with diamonds.
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.
