I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

People love conspiracy theories.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.