Quotes About Leadership

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.