People Upon Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but… — James Cook
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. — Thomas Francis Meagher
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of… — Charles Dickens
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. — Steve King
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the… — Ellen G. White
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation… — Barack Obama

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