Quotes About Command

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

Money can buy many things. Even power.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

Money is economic power.