Quotes and Sayings About People
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
-- Abraham Maslow
