Quotes About People

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.