Leadership Quotes

"The mind of the North must be aroused."

"I have a whole race to uplift."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits."

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."

"The cause of my people is the cause of mankind."

"Some people were born to lead, and others to follow; I was born to lead."

"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual."

"The duty of resistance to tyranny is not optional but obligatory."

"I stand among you as much your servant as your leader."

"The cause is greater than the individual who fights for it."

"The freedom of persons, and the fate of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"Bad government is the most fertile source of human misery."

"The necessity of political unity is even more apparent in war than in peace."

"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration."

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

"The Constitution requires an oath of the President."

"There is no dodge. We must shoulder the responsibility."

"I have always been of opinion that the civil service should be reformed by putting the ablest men into the best positions."

"In the execution of such a trust I shall endeavor to be guided by the same principle which has invariably guided me in other stations, to the best of my judgment and ability."

"Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."

"I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

"I was called Moses because I had led so many to the promised land."

"Women have been called queens for a long time but the kingdom given them is small."

"The voice of woman must be heard in all matters of state and society."

"Lawyers are the gatekeepers of the law. We must open those gates to all."

"A judge must serve the people, not the powerful."

"The law is only as good as those who enforce it."

"The bench is only as fair as the judge who sits upon it."