Quotes about Leadership

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

The dead should not rule the living.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Delay is preferable to error.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

you cannot have a political solution for a spiritual problem. You must have spiritual solutions for spiritual problems!

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.