Quotes About Leadership

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.