Quotes About Influence

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

A good man never dies.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

If a man own land, the land owns him.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.