Quotes of People - somelinesforyou

“ There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ”

- Ray Goforth

“ There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature and of nations. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ”

- Josh Billings

“ A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ Our country is the world — our countrymen are mankind. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ The United Nations is like a spade; it is not self-operating. It is what we make of it, for purposes that we can find in common with our neighbors in the world. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it. ”

- Voltaire

“ Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or it will it be irrelevant? ”

- Saddam Hussein

“ Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence. ”

- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

“ Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its "great intellects.". ”

- Karl Marx

“ The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. ”

- Voltaire

“ The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses. ”

- Juvenal

“ We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The people are to be taken in very small doses. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ”

- Abba Eban

“ When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. ”

- Mac Orlan

“ When women go wrong, men go right after them. ”

- Mae West

“ I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ”

- Matthew

“ When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. ”

- Thomas Jefferson
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