Quotes About Leadership

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.

But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

One GI quipped (after Churchill) that "Never in the field of human conflict have so few been commanded by so many, from so far away.

Americans have seen fit to elect twelve generals to the U.S. presidency, but even before there was a United States of America generals ruled the earth. Take

As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton

In every local church there is a star;

Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.

It's lonely at the top; got no company.

Fasten your jibs and loosen your mainsails, you lousy lubbers.

If we do not disciple and empower others as Jesus did, we end up exploiting them and using them for our own ends, even if we clothe our actions in very spiritual terms.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

One cool judgement is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.