Quotes About Leadership

Chi ha compagno ha padrone—'He who has a partner has a master.

Sunteti monsenior pentru servitorii dumneavoastra, pentru jurnalisti sunteti domn, iar pentru mandatarii dumneavoastar sunteti cetatean. Sunt nuante foarte potrivite pentru un guvern constitutional.

The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.

No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

I have heard of patriotism in the United States, and it is a virtue which may be found among the people, but never among the leaders of the people.

A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it. But the ostensible semblance of authority is by no means indispensable to the conduct of affairs, and it is needlessly offensive to the susceptibility of the public.

The whole military power of the State is at the disposal of the Governor. He is the commander of the militia, and head of the armed force.

Democratic nations often hate those in whose hands the central power is vested; but they love that power itself.

Democratic nations often hate those in whose hands the central power is vested; but they always love that power itself.

While the natural instincts of democracy persuade the people to remove distinguished men from power, the latter are guided by no less an instinct to distance themselves from a political career, where it is so difficult for them to retain their complete autonomy or to make any progress without cheapening themselves.

In the United States the most able men are rarely placed at the head of affairs

In aristocracies the master often exercises, even without being aware of it, an amazing sway over the opinions, the habits, and the manners of those who obey him, and his influence extends even further than his authority.

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men;

The nation's most powerful, intelligent, and morally responsible classes have never tried to take hold of the movement in order to guide it. Democracy has therefore been abandoned to its savage instincts.

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It is difficult to associate a people in the work of government; but it is still more difficult to supply it with experience, and to inspire it with the feelings which it requires in order to govern well.

In general, democracy gives largely to the community, and very sparingly to those who govern it. The reverse is the case in aristocratic countries, where the money of the State is expended to the profit of the persons who are at the head of affairs.

In the United States, I am not sure that the people would return the men of superior abilities who might solicit its support, but it is certain that men of this description do not come forward.

Parties are a necessary evil in free governments.