Quotes About Leadership

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.