Quotes About Leadership

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

I am a war president.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink