Control Quotes

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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting… — Alexander Hamilton
If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be… — Calvin Coolidge
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of… — Woodrow Wilson
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to… — James Madison
You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no… — Neale Donald Walsch
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land… — D. H. Lawrence
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece… — Ross Macpherson Smith
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine… — Richard Bach
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human… — John F. Kennedy
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their… — Michael Parenti
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must… — Michael Parenti
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them.… — Gillian Welch
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in… — Edward Alsworth Ross
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no… — Thomas Jefferson
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too… — Alexander Hamilton
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over… — James Madison
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. — James Madison
You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth — Billy Graham
Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace. — Brian Weiss
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J. G. Holland

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