"Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world."
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"Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders."
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"Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante."
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"The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others."
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"The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!"
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"That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes."
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"He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands."
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"A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people."
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"Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy."
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"It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches."
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"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
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"While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else."
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"Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey."
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"Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have."
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"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."
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"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."
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"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."
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"The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space."
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"Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below."
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"These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding."
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