Quotes about Leadership
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
— George W. Bush
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
— George Washington
Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
— George Washington
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
— George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
— George Washington
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
— George Washington
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.
— George Washington
Let me now… warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
— George Washington
Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title
— George Washington
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
— Thomas Jefferson