I don't mind how much my ministers talk-as long as they do what I say.

If the ruler claims as his own what people desire, and retains for himself alone what everyone longs for, he teaches the people to steal and deceive by his example.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your love.

Obey me as I obey God and His Messenger; if I disobey them, then you should disobey me.

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who w alks far in advance of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries may pass before he is recognized as such and intelligently followed.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.