Quotes About Influence

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

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

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

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism,Christianity would not exist

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

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

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.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

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 history of Heroes is the history of Youth.

Little things affect little minds.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.

George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.