Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

If you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body...." -ABDUL KALAM..