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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
— Khalil Gibran
But it is quite understandable that even the best of people are accessible to the idea of a state because, as I said, a state functions as something very real. You see, when the state claims to be like God's finger creating order out of chaos, it is true to a certain extend; it is monstrous, not human, but a people in its wholeness is not human. It is a big animal, and therefore it needs another monster to tame it.
— Carl Jung
We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people.
— George W. Bush
People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
— George W. Bush
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
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.
— George Washington
A people.. who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything
— George Washington
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
— George Washington
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
— Martin Van Buren
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
— Oscar Wilde
God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.
— Anonymous