"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasow

"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." - Fred A. Manske, Jr.

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." - John C. Maxwell

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J. Watson

"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." - Reagan, Ronald

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." - Setanti, Joaquin de

"I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute;
From the center all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute."
- WILLIAM COWPER, Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk

"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, attributed

"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." - LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speech (1965)

"A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists,
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
Worst when they despise him."
- LAO-TZU, The Way of Life

"I have to follow them, I am their leader." - ALEXANDRE-AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN, attributed

"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, in New York Herald Tribune

"I am the state! (l'tat, c'est moi!)" - LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE, attributed

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - NICCOL MACHIAVELLI, The Prince

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." - HENRY MILLER, The Wisdom of the Heart

"A leader is a dealer in hope." - NAPOLEON I, attributed

"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - RICHARD M. NIXON, television interview (with David Frost)

"Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat." - ORTEGA Y GASSET, The Revolt of the Masses

"It is impossible to reign innocently." - ELOUIS DE SAINT-JUST, speech (1793) - This comment was made at the sentencing of Louis XVI to death;

"The first art of a monarch is the power to endure hatred." - SENECA, Hercules Furens

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part II

"All kings is mostly rapscallions." - MARK TWAIN, Huckleberry Finn