Quotes About Leadership

inner life is inadequately recognised or honoured by many conservative leaders and spokesmen, in word or in work. In effect the theology of conservatism has been sacrificed to the new gods and the new morality of modernity. The discipline of spiritual conservatism has been manifestly lessened by its own peculiar form of liberation theology, as it were, and by the purely quantitative point of view prevailing in the marketplace of ideas.

between 1957 and 1990 there were more than 150 African heads of state and only six relinquished power voluntarily.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.

A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.

A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence: there are too few of them. Until a movement shows itself capable of spreading among brigands, it can never hope for a political majority.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted to another shoulder.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Authority abuse is any situation in which an authority figure's influence eclipses that of God's or disrupts God's divine order of authority.

I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no I in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an I in independence, individuality and integrity.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

If we could only find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.

Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine.

The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]

It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously better than the public men on the other side.

Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.

If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.