I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves.

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

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.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

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.