populace quotes

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

- Matthew Arnold
  Culture and  Anarchy, preface.

That vast portion†of the working-class which, raw and half-developed has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding- place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes,breaking what it likestothisvast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.

- Matthew Arnold
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.3.

  A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
c.1737  Irene, act1, sc.1 (first produced1749).