Quotes About Leadership

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly;

The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet;

Government by Monks, who knew nothing of the world beyond the walls of a Convent, is as consistent as government by Kings.

the Jewish nation, immediately on the death of Solomon, split into two parties, who chose separate kings, and who carried on most rancorous wars against each other.

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

whoever the men be to whom the government of any country is entrusted, they ought to be the best and wisest that can be found, and if they are not so, they are not fit for the station.

The parliament always following the strongest side.

Whatever the form or constitution of government may be, it ought to have no other object than the general happiness.

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

A government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all...

Though we have been wise enough to shut and lock the door against an absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.

Of more worth is one honeset man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion.

And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;

The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

People take charge and then you find out what they wanted power for.

They were to be priest-kings in God's creation as sons of God.

We have no need of a feminized apparatus to bureaucratically manage women's lives or to issue sporadic statements about women's lives by smooth-talking functionaries. What we need are women who will fight because they know that without a fight the old order will not be destroyed and no new order will be built. We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitively destroy and replace it.

As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.

Un militaire sans formation politique n'est qu'un criminel en puissance

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.