Famous quotes containing the words peasant and/or popular:
“The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (1749–1806)