Quotes About Influence

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

The permutations of rent-seeking are as many as the administrative state is vast. Rent-seeking is the activity of attempting to increase one's income without increasing the quantity or quality of the goods or services offered to customers. It is the attempt to manipulate public power for private advantage—to get government to improve your economic circumstances by conferring a benefit on you or a handicap on your competitors.

In another dissent, which became famous and influential, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted an almost unlimited government police power flowing from "the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law." Notice that Holmes' majoritarianism led him to assert an essentially unlimited right.

Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen and come up that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can."

When you drill down and see the forces that are shaping nations, you can see that the menu from which they choose is limited.

The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power.

And from this story I learned about the geopolitics of taking out one's salami.

It is interesting to note that Copernicus was German/Polish, Luther was German, and Gutenberg was German.

The United States doesn't need to win wars. It needs to simply disrupt things so the other side can't build up sufficient strength to challenge it.

It mattered a great deal who occupied your country. The

In 732 Charles Martel, in a defining battle, defeated the Muslim armies, forcing them back behind the mountains and confining them to the Iberian Peninsula. Had Martel lost that battle, Europe would have been a very different place. It

We have to remember that presidents are simply the street signs. The cycle is working itself out in the murky depths.