Famous quotes by Leaders

"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Ignorance is always afraid of change"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home, nowhere"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Every little thing counts in a crisis"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage, that they force us to think"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Citizenship consists in the service of the country"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"A theory must be tempered with reality"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

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

Robert Peel, Leader

"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics"

Robert Peel, Leader

"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs"

Robert Peel, Leader

"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion"

Robert Peel, Leader

"The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!"

Robert Peel, Leader

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