Such were the numbers which could call The stones into theTheban wall. Such miracles are ceased, and now we see No towns or houses raised by poetry.

-Cowley, Abraham
  Poems,'Ode: Of  Wit'.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

-Cromwell, Oliver
  Letter to Sir William Spring, Sep. Quotedin Thomas Carlyle Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845).

That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. See Bentham 77:65.

-Hutcheson, Francis
  An Inquiry into theOriginal of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, treatise 2, sect.3. This is the classic exposition of pragmatism.

By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarling muse.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  London: a Poem, l.158^61.

   Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

-Spenser, Edmund
  Epithalamion, section16.

The politics of numbers.

-Tanaka, Kakuei
  Describing democracy, in an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 25 Jan.

Plures efficimus quoties metimur a vobis, semen est sanguis Christianorum. As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians istheseed.

-Tertullian full name  Quintus SeptimiusFlorensTertullianus
Apologeticus, ch.50, section13.The phrase is often quoted as 'The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.'

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

-Thurber,James Grover
  'The Fairly Intelligent Fly', in the NewYorker, 4 Feb.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

-Weinstein
  Miss Lonelyhearts.