Quotes about Leadership

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."