People
- Carole Gist, first African American woman to win the Miss USA title
- Christopher Gist (1706–1759), one of the first white explorers of the Ohio Country in what would become the United States
- James Gist (born 1986), American professional basketball player
- Joseph Gist (1775–1836), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Mordecai Gist (1743–1792), member of a prominent Maryland family who became a general in command of the Maryland Line in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- Robert Gist (1924–1998), American actor and film director
- States Rights Gist (1831–1864), lawyer, a militia general in South Carolina, and a Confederate Army general who served during the American Civil War
- William Henry Gist (1807–1874), 68th Governor of South Carolina from 1858 to 1860 and a leader of the secession movement in South Carolina
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“You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better.... Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)