“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to controul the abuses… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“equal, hierarchical, or unrelated? These relationships also define the exercise of power as a collective act. A psychological” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had an equal… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
