Quotes about Leadership

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optimistic; others despair. Some shake their fist at God; others quietly submit. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.