Famous quotes containing the words test and/or stand:
“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are
a hundred that will stand adversity.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)