The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Knowledge is power.

We all have the duty to do good.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

There are some loony people in this world!

People love conspiracy theories.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.