The People

Sections (TOC) :

• 1
      14 Words; 97 Characters

• 2
      34 Words; 196 Characters

• 3
      41 Words; 223 Characters

• 4
      26 Words; 133 Characters

• 5
      43 Words; 279 Characters

• 6
      6 Words; 47 Characters

• 7
      14 Words; 99 Characters

• 8
      21 Words; 114 Characters

• 9
      15 Words; 122 Characters

• 10
      17 Words; 120 Characters

• 11
      25 Words; 145 Characters

• 12
      47 Words; 275 Characters

Sections (Content) :

• 1

[Anonymous rioter] Beware of disavowing the people, lest in their turn they disavow you!

• 2

[Anonymous labor union delegate] A large body is more easily swayed by men who want to use political methods than a smaller body in which each member can hear everything that is going on.

• 3

When good order prevailed in his country, Ning Wu acted the part of a wise man. When his country was in disorder, he acted the part of a stupid man. Others may equal his wisdom, but they cannot equal his stupidity.

• 4

The commander of the forces of a large state may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

• 5

We want to abolish all domination by establishing our own domination. These contradictions appear to our scholars and professors too scholarly. But already my grandmother knew that those who make every day Sunday have no Sunday, that is, where all govern nobody governs.

• 6

The multitude is every where strong...

• 7

...if Jesuit and diplomatic Europe has abandoned you, the democracy will never forget you.

• 8

...only the citizens of a specific region are in a position to be aware of the means that should be used.

• 9

...the Paris streets...[is] that parliament of its own...

[Chapter 3: The Disastrous Six Weeks, Page 53.]

• 10

...create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves...

• 11

...the pleasant custom of seeing and knowing one another should make the love of country rather a love of the citizens than of its soil.

• 12

When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.

Chronology :

March 12, 2020 : The People -- Added.

HTML file generated from :

http://RevoltSource.com/