Quotes About Control

All Socialism involves slavery.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things, behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.