for thou art a stiff-necked people

For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

The great unwashed.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it ...

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.