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"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."
"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."
"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."
"There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either."
"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."
"If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take."
"The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day."
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