Famous quotes containing the word leader:
“A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first mannot the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truthis next to the Divinity!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“A bunch of horsemen curtly asked his name,
Their leader in a different dialect stated
A war was on for which he was to blame,
And he must help them.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nations leaders wouldnt know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)