Quotes about People
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
— Thomas Jefferson
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.
— Nelson Mandela
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
— Calvin Coolidge
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
— CS Lewis
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
— Francis Schaeffer
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
— Herbert Hoover
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
— Pope John Paul II
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
— Thomas Jefferson
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
— George W. Bush
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
— Billy Sunday
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.
— Martin Luther