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Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.

Antoine De Saint-exupery

Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.

Peter F. Drucker

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.

Walter Lippmann

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

Albert Camus

There are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. Anthony T. Dadovano -Bernd Brecher.

Bernd Brecher

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.

Chinese Proverb

A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.

Hindu Proverb

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

Thomas Fuller

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.

Gideon J. Tucker

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.

Bible, Ecclesiasticus 38:24

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

William Henry Cicero

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Thomas Pythagoras

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Elbert Hubbard

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Gregory Nunn

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Barry Goldwater

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Frank Dane

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Jacques Barzun

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang To step aside is human.

Robert Burns

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.

Sir John Francis Davis

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran

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