America Quote by Charles Dickens

People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.

— Donald T. Phillips

“Power not only corrupts but also magnifies existing psychopathologies, even as it creates new ones. Fostered by the flattery of underlings and the chants…

— Bandy X Lee

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but…

— David Josiah Brewer

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

— Virgil

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a…

— Helen Bosanquet

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his…

— Theodor Adorno

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the…

— Samuel Johnson

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

— Theodore Parker

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

— Aeschylus

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

— Dan B. Allender