Quotes About Leadership

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

The American people await action. They didn't send us here to bicker. They ask us to rise above the merely partisan. "In crucial things, unity" and this, my friends, is crucial.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This chamber reeks of blood... it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.