We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Money can’t buy life.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.