Quotes About Leadership

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well