“Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.”~William Cobbett English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, soldier, and farmer William Cobbett was born on this day in 1763.
“The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.”~Huey Newton African American revolutionary, political activist, and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton was born on this day in 1942.
“Every one of the world’s dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.”~Harold H. Greene American jurist Harold H. Greene was born on this day in 1923.
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”~Millard Fillmore Thirteenth President of the United States Millard Fillmore was born on this day in 1800.
“The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.”~Wendell Phillips American abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney Wendell Phillips was born on this day in 1811.
“A government is for the benefit of all the people.”~William Howard Taft Twenty-seventh President of the United States (1909 to 1913) and tenth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921 to 1930) William Howard Taft was born on this day in 1857.
“If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.”~Emiliano Zapata Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was born on this day in 1879.
“The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.”~Ed Markey American politician Ed Markey was born on this day in 1946.
“A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.”~Adam Smith Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith was born on this day in 1723.
“All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.”~Randolph Bourne American writer and intellectual Randolph Bourne was born on this day in 1886.
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