Quotes About Leadership

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

It is a great vice for any constitution to leave to powerful men no alternative between their own power and the scaffold.

Of all political curses the most terrible is an assembly that is but the instrument of a single man.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.

It is a holy thing to see a state saved by its youth.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.