Quotes about Leadership
When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.
— Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
— Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
— Winston Churchill
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
— Winston Churchill
This was their finest hour
— Winston Churchill
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.
— Woodrow Wilson
We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.
— Woodrow Wilson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
— Woodrow Wilson
No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country.
— Woodrow Wilson