People Quotes

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

Silly people, and there are many, not only in enemy countries, might discount the force of the United States. Some said they were soft, others that they would never be united. They would fool around at a distance. They would never come to grips. They would never stand bloodletting. Their democracy and system of recurrent elections would paralyse their war horizon to friend or foe. Now we should see the weakness of this numerous but remote, wealthy, and talkative people. But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch.

Democracy is not a caucus, obtaining a fixed term of office by promises, and then doing what it likes with the people. We hold that there ought to be a constant relationship between the rulers and the people. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," still remains the sovereign definition of democracy.

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority.

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

People overestimate the Rolling Stones. I don't think the Stones areas good as people think. Obviously I think the Stones are a very good band.

Americans are funny people. First, you shock them, and then they put you in a museum.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.