Plain People Quotes

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.

Most people think the Shakers are in Pennsylvania. They tend to confuse them with the Amish.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

We seek to restore the Government of the Republic to the hands of the ‘plain people’ with whom it originated,