A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

To lead people walk behind them.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.