Quotes about People
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
— Confucius
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.
— Thomas Jefferson
No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
— Jay-Z
We believe people with Passion can change the world for the better.
— Steve Jobs
Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus on your positive energy and kill them with kindness. Energy vampires are no match for your positive energy.
— Jon Gordon
Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
— Aldous Huxley
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
— Roger Williams
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
— Thomas Jefferson
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
— Thomas Paine
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
— John Adams