People
- Maria (given name) is a given name, usually for a female
- Maria (daughter of Maurice), the name of a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor
- Maria Prophetissa, Mary the Jewess, reputed founder of alchemy first mentioned by Zosimus
- Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome
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“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“If I must choose which I would elevate
The people or the already lofty mountains,
I’d elevate the already lofty mountains.
The only fault I find with old New Hampshire
Is that her mountains aren’t quite high enough.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)