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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't. - Anonymous By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. - Confucius People don't live or die, people just float. - Bob Dylan (f/k/a Robert Allen Zimmerman), Man in the Long Black Coat, a song The will of the people is the best law. - Ulysses Simpson Grant Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast. - Alexander Hamilton All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. - Rudyard Kipling And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise? - John Milton The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile. - Benito Mussolini Texans are proof that the world was populated by aliens. - Cynthia Nelms The people are the only sovereigns of any country. - R.D. Owen I am a member of the rabble in good standing. - Westbrook Pegler To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people. - Joseph Ernest Renan The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven. - Bishop Robert South If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife. - Robert Louis Stevenson Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. - Jonathan Swift The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. - Martin Van Buren The character of the common people changes in a single day. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. - Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. - Daniel Webster But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred. - Walt Whitman The only real people are the people who never existed. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) No party should fear to go before the people for their decision. - Robert Yates
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