The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and engagement of all.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.