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"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
"People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about."
"People cannot hurt you without your permission."
"The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars."
"It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
"People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness."
"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights."
"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."
"At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel."
"Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow."
"It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
"People change. Memories don't."
"Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen."
"Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel."
"Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future."
"You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish."
"Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people."
"People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society."
"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."
"The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president."
