Quotes about Leadership
A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.
- George W. Bush
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
- Henry A. Wallace
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
- Robert Frost
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
- Alexander Hamilton
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
- George Washington
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
- Shirley Chisholm
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
- Edmund Burke
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams