Leadership Quotes

"Leadership is the ability to articulate a community's unspoken values."

"The most certain method of rendering men obedient is to make them happy."

"The purpose of all government must be the happiness of the governed."

"The art of good government is knowing when not to govern."

"To govern is to serve, not to command."

"The measure of a leader is not in their power, but in their compassion."

"The art of central banking is the art of managing the publics confidence."

"Keynes argued that governments should run deficits during recessions to stimulate demand."

"Nothing is more important than good judgment; everything else can be learned."

"A true leader serves others before himself."

"Leadership is service in its highest form."

"In a free society, the state serves the citizens, not the reverse."

"The dispersal of power is more important than the kind or amount of power."

"The function of the legislator is to promote the happiness of the society."

"The great business of legislation is to ascertain what arrangements best conduce to public happiness."

"The legislator who acts contrary to the principle of utility acts against the interest of the people."

"The chief executive of every country should be accountable to the people."

"The legislator is the physician of the state."

"The legislator must choose between the happiness of the many and the privileges of the few."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"Leadership is influence."

"Leadership is the power to direct collective energy."

"The leader who listens learns more than the leader who merely commands."

"The power of example is greater than the power of precept."

"A monarch who rules by law is great; one who rules by whim is merely a tyrant with a crown."

"The magistrate who is not bound by law is the enemy of all citizens."

"The enlightened legislator seeks to improve humanity, not to gratify the vengeful passions of the mob."

"Legislation is the art of determining what is best for society, not what is easiest for the legislator."

"The greatest monument to a legislator is not his laws, but the liberty and security of the people living under them."

"The more strictly we are watched, the better we behave."