Tell him on the contrary that he needs in the interest of his own happiness to walk in the path of humility and self-control and he will be indifferent or even actively resentful.
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
More enduringly than any other sport wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions like churches and families which stand between the state and individuals.
I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
It's counterintuitive but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
Well again a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean wow. Come on let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.
If marriage really is a sacred institution then why is the government controlling it especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
The problem is that when government controls the economy those who can influence government keep winning and everybody else just stays the same.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
The control of information is something the elite always does particularly in a despotic form of government. Information knowledge is power. If you can control information you can control people.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.