The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

An empty throne always tempts me.