Famous quotes containing the words gracious and/or people:
“My gracious silence, hail!
Wouldst thou have laughed had I come coffined home,
That weep’st to see me triumph?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)