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Quotes by Leader

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."


"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."


"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."

"Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land."

"A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing."

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."

"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

"As the U.S. businesses search for new areas of economic growth, markets for their goods, a pool of skilled resources, and global locations to produce and manufacture, India could be their ideal partner. India's strong economy, and growth rate of 7.6% per annum, is creating new opportunities for our mutual prosperity."

"Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification."

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."

"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."


"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."


"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."

"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."

"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."


"Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws."

"The king must die so that the country can live."
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