the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when we are working also that America may take her place worthily and helpfully in the world of nations . . . Interdependence is the keynote of the relations of nations as it is the keynote of the relations of individuals within nations.