If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, cut me down! If I die, avenge me!
Follow me, if I advance; kill me if I retreat; revenge me if I die!
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!'
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
'Ah, John A., John A., how I love you! How I wish I could trust you!
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
