The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Since the people eats every day, it should be allowed to work every day
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible...
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes
It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.
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.
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.