Quotes About Leadership

where the money of the church goes, so goes its heart.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

Three things are required for a war to be just. Indeed, the first requirement is that the ruler at whose command the war is to be waged have the lawful authority to do so. . . . Second, there needs to be a just cause to wage war, namely, that the enemy deserve to have war waged against it because of some wrong it has inflicted. . . . Third, those waging war need to have a right intention, namely, an intention to promote good and avoid evil.

Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory.

The Lionheart had arrived.

Thomas B. Buell

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Metternich told lies all the time, and never deceived any one; Talleyrand never told a lie and deceived the whole world.

privilege is founded on duty, and if the horse carries the man, the animal is fed before the rider himself doth eat. Thus in certain respects the first comes last, and the greatest king is the loneliest.

We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre].

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

Captains of Industry.

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.