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“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes
“A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.”
“A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.”
Source: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Watchman, edited by L. Patton
“A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.”
“A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.”
Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs
“A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress
“A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.”
“A people eager to prejudge guilt as opposed to innocence, are a people ripe and ready to become a despot's "willing executioners".”
“A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.”
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
“A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”
“A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846
“A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.”
“A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.”
“A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.”
“A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it”
“A people must have dignity and identity.”
“A people needs air, broad horizons, an ideal which charms its imagination and makes its heart beat; reduce it to household calculations, to the politics of party interests, it will disintegrate and corrupt itself.”
“A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or class than one that has been able to situate itself in history. This is why - and this is the only reason why - the entire art of the past has now become a political issue.”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.”
Source: Studies in Proverbs: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth
“A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”
“A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.”
“A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish!”
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
“A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.”
Source: ABC of Reading
“A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.”
“A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."”
“A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.”
“A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.”
“A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.”
“A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A People which is content with its homeland and which shreds at even the shadow of a conflict lacks the characteristics of a superior race.”
“A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“A people who choose spectacle over skill will dance to the rhythm of their own extinction.”
“A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.”
“A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.”
“A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if,
without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from
oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is
nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences
and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist
domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily
an act of culture”
“A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.”
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.”
Source: Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.”
Source: Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
“A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies”
“A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire