In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

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.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

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.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

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.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

History should be written as philosophy.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

History, a distillation of rumour.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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.

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

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.