Shamir/people

Famous quotes containing the words shamir and/or people:

    Should there be maniacs who raise the idea, they will encounter an iron fist which will leave no trace of such attempts.
    —Yitzhak Shamir (b. 1915)

    ... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
    Frances Wright (1795–1852)