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Letter "P" » People
«The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
| About:
Hope,
Justice,
People,
Society,
Trust
| Keywords:
ammunition, armor, cloak, collective, public trust, sole, Supreme Court, The Collective
«The people in power are the people who are constantly able to discover new and relevant knowledge, which is really tied to the capacity to learn.»
«The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
People,
Power
| Keywords:
branches, Branches of, charter, chartered, charters, constitutional, derived, fountain, legitimate
«The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
circumstances, get on, get up, look for
«The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard.»
«The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Curiosity,
People,
Uselessness,
Worthiness
| Keywords:
curiosity, except, insatiable, public
«The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Books,
Friends,
People
| Keywords:
comprehending, Great Books
«The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad»
«The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Errors,
People,
Truth
| Keywords:
censors, governors, governors and
«The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.»
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