leader quotes

Ein Reich, einVolk, ein Fu«  hrer. One realm, one people, one leader.

-Anonymous
  German Nazi slogan.

He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical.He has a Beckett little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.

-Baron
  Commenting on Sir Samuel Hoare's appointment as Foreign Secretary.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

- (Matthew) Heywood Campbell Broun
  In NewYork World, 6 Feb.

If a traveller were informed that such a man was Leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians came to worship an insect.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Of Lord John Russell.  Attributed.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstonean extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisyand superstition and with one commanding characteristic.Whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying, or scribblingneveragentleman.Heisso vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a parliamentary Constitution is not favourable to such ambitions. Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
c.1874  Letter.

Ihavea lotof sympathy with him.Itoowas onceayoung, bald Leader of the Opposition.

- Neil Gordon Kinnock
  On William Hague. In The Independent, 3 Oct.

That rarest of political creaturesa Labor leader who could actually win elections.

- Robert D(ennis) McFadden
  Of Harold Wilson. In the NewYork Times, 25 May.

A leader cut from whipcord.

-William Raymond Manchester
  Of Governor  John B Connally  Jr. The Death of a President.

We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.

- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
  Rationalism in Politics.

The leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

- Clarence Beldan Randall
  Making Good in Management.

No leader deserves the unconditional confidence of his people.

- Margaret Webster
  Part of a statement appearing on DemocracyWall under the pseudonym'Voice ofToday'. Quoted in Uli Franz Deng Xiaoping (1988).

What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them. Their first practical leader is an Irish-American.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Of Charles Stewart Parnell.'TheTwo Chiefs of Dunboy: or, an Irish Romance of the Last Century'in Pall Mall Gazette,13 Apr.