Famous quotes containing the words peasant, popular and/or union:
“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
—Kelvin MacKenzie (b. 1946)
“Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvellous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can’t decipher the cyrillic alphabet.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)