Quotes About Leadership

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

It's east to start a war in any country

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.