Quotes About Leadership

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.

The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that's out of kings.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. - A Tramp Abroad

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is—a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]

Todo ser humano debería sentirse avergonzado de su especie al pensar en los mamarrachos que siempre han ocupado los tronos.

Old war-worn captains are hard-headed, practical men. They do not easily believe in the ability of ignorant children to plan campaigns and command armies. No general that ever lived could have taken Joan seriously (militarily) before she raised the siege of Orleans and followed it with the great campaign of the Loire.

A Church committee.

Tom was General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other. These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person—that being better suited to the still smaller fry—but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.

All'inizio di un cambiamento, il patriota è un uomo cupo, impavido, odiato e diffamato. Ma quando la sua causa ha successo, il timido gli si unisce, perché a quel punto non costa più niente esser patrioti.

Always obey your superiors, if you have any.

Now and then a division-agent was really obliged to shoot a hostler through the head to teach him some simple matter that he could have taught him with a club if his circumstances and surroundings had been different. But they were snappy, able men, those division-agents, and when they tried to teach a subordinate anything, that subordinate generally got it through his head.