influence Quotes

"Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Good habits learned in youth make all the difference later in life.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they... ...

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We are convinced by a speaker's good character when their speech makes us trust them. We believe good people more easily and completely than others, especially when there's no definite answer and opinions are split.

“Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.”

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.