Quotes About People

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

All power is inherent in the people.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.