Leadership Quotes

"The new prince must be built up as the interpreter of the deepest wishes of the people."

"The exercise of hegemony requires constant renewal of consent from those ruled."

"Every great movement of thought and action has to encounter the opposition of mediocrities."

"The question is not how to wrest control of the world, but how to govern oneself."

"Ignorance of the public and private law is unforgivable in a statesman."

"The function of government is to calm, not to excite the passions of the people."

"It is a great advantage to a President, and at this crisis for a singularly important one, to have a Secretary of State who is wise, prudent, courteous, and eminently patriotic."

"The task of the Government is not to make judgments about the correctness of various ideologies."

"The goodness of a government is to be measured by the character of the men it appoints to office."

"It is a curious thing that I have the satisfaction of knowing that the administration conducted by you has been in accordance with the opinion of the Crown."

"We must shape the future, or the future will shape us."

"The test of statesmanship is not what you announce, but what you achieve."

"A government should be judged by its actions, not its promises."

"A government exists to serve the people, not to govern them."

"A nation that loses its sense of purpose loses its way."

"Britain's role is not to dominate others, but to be an example to them."

"A good government is one that serves the interests of all its people."

"The working class is the true inheritor of humanity's future."

"Despotism can govern by fear, but a free people require wisdom."

"Every project of a polity, every régime of a government, every system of a set of fundamental laws, is to be tried by this one thing."

"Great empires and little minds go ill together."

"To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is a servile office."

"To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole is the first and last commandment of nature."

"If the intellectual has a function, it is precisely to educate the people."

"The organic intellectual emerges from the people and returns to serve them."

"The proper end of government is the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"To know the character of a legislator, examine the laws which he has framed."

"It is the business of government to promote the happiness of society."

"Legislation is the art of ordering human beings."

"The whole art of government is the art of being honest."