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People Quotes

The blood, sweat and tears of our people are mixed into this earth and have formed between us an eternal bond, written into the soil of this land...Bonds that remind us of ancient links between this region [Afghanistan] and India.


My focus is on governance. Country has been at greatest loss because governments were run only for elections. Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people.


People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.


There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.


A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.


If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.


A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.


The people must not be counted upon; they cry indifferently : "Long live the King!" and "Long live the Conspirators!" a proper direction must be given to them, and proper instruments employed to effect it.


It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.


Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.


The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.


We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people-whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth-is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.


Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.


I can't believe that we can fight a war against fascist slavery, and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a backward colonial policy? The peace cannot include any continued despotism ... Equality of peoples involves the utmost freedom of competitive trade.


People die, but books never die.


I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.


True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.


People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.


There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.


If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.