Quotes about Leadership
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
— George Washington
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Influence is not government.
— George Washington
Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.
— Max Lucado
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
— Thomas Jefferson
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
— Mark Twain
Those are governed best who are governed least.
— Thomas Jefferson
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
— Abraham Lincoln