Quotes about People

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

I am never bored in my ministry because I continually see the impact of God in people's lives.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. { Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt , 6 December, 1813 }

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.

Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government

The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.

Concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto. . . . Numquid poterit parare mensam populo suo?

I will give them a heart to understand that I am Yahweh, and they shall be my people and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart. —JEREMIAH 24:7