Leadership Quotes

“Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”

“The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.”

“Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”

“We were not born to sue, but to command.”

“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”

“The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.”

“To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.”

“So get the start of the majestic worldAnd bear the palm alone.”

“You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?”

“The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.”

“The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.”

“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”

“Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?”

“Wherever there is power there is age.”

“I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

“We expect a great man to be a good reader.”

“The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.”

“I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.”

“A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.”

“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.”

“History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.”

“Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?”

“Let them obey that knows not how to rule.”

“If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.”

“When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.”