Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Poems,'Ode', dedicated to W H Channing.

Communism fits Germany as a saddle fits a cow.

-Stalin,Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
  In conversation with the Polish politician, Stanislaw Mikolajcik, Aug.

All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle leather, The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.3, l.91^5.