William Ross Wallace (1819-May 5, 1881) was an American poet. In The Hand That Rules the World, st. I, he stated:
<The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.> 1819WW001
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1819WW001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Ross Wallace, in The Hand That Rules the World, st. I. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 573.