Whole People Quotes
53 Whole People quotes by 42 unique authors
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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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
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I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
— George Mason
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One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological…
— Adolf Hitler
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
— Edmund Burke
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Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
— George Washington
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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
— Edmund Burke
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I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.
— Zachary Taylor
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The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.
— Harriet Martineau
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The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation…
— Norman Angell
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I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent…
— Timothy McVeigh
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Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia…
— George Mason
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One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not…
— Julian Fellowes
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Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the…
— George Mason
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I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just…
— Anna Wintour
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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
— Richard Rohr
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The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not…
— Mike Yaconelli
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Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays…
— Cyprian
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What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race,…
— Eleanor Duckworth
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He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of…
— Robert Underwood Johnson
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