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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

– Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

– Margaret Halsey

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

– Oscar Wilde

Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

– Brigid Antonia Brophy

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

– Thomas Jefferson

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

– Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

– Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

– Proverbs 2918 Bible

Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER.

– Tecumseh

Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.

– Heinrich Heine

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

– Theodore Harold White

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

– Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

– Gerald W. Grummet

While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.

– Goldsmith

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

– Carl Sagan

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

– Charles M. Schulz

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining

– George Wallace

Why dont you write books people can read

– Nora Joyce, to her husband James

Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.

– David Assael

Will you treat people who make you miserable as prison guards, or travel agents?

– Leslie Miklosy

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

– Lord Chesterfield

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

– Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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