leadership Quotes

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a... ...

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form... ...

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

The main goal of a statesman is to create a certain moral character in their citizens, specifically a tendency towards virtue and performing good actions.

Therefore, the ultimate goal of politics should be the good of humanity.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and... ...

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.