Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.