Quotes About Leadership

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

Councils of War never fight.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.