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People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

– George Orwell

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe

– American Indian Proverb

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

– Tench Coxe

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

– Robert Benchley

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

– Vaclav Havel

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

– Fritz Perls

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

– Ernest Hemingway

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

– William Arthur Ward

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

– Mark Twain

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

– Lee Iacocca

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.

– Indira Nehru Gandhi

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

– Lee Iacocca

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

– Richard Milhous Nixon

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

– Marita Bonner

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

– Shirley MacLaine

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

– Ernest Hemingway

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.

– Frank Rizzo

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

– Richard Phillips Feynman

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

– Alcuin

Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

– Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

– Vince Lombardi

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

– Michael Korda

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