Quotes About Control

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Of all political curses the most terrible is an assembly that is but the instrument of a single man.

Sovereignty has only a limited and relative existence. At the point where independence and individual existence begin, the jurisdiction of sovereignty ends.

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.