Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor BurnsThose who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!
James MacGregor BurnsA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsLeadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
James MacGregor BurnsLet us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.
James MacGregor Burns