people Quotes

“Wealth is the means—and people are the ends.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“Every tax ought to be so contrived, as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“Besides this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“People are like lice—they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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