leadership Quotes

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.