Quotes about People

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

The strength of government does not consist of anything within itself, but in the attachment of a nation, and the interest which a people feel in supporting it.

It is always the interest of a far greater number of people in a nation to have things right, than to let them remain wrong; and when public matters are open to debate, and the public judgment free, it will not decide wrong, unless it decides to hastily.

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

Obsessions turn people off.

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.