Quotes About Leadership

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

I am sure that, after all, any man in my place should set a positive example for other people.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.