Creativity Quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

— David S. Broder

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“It is a regrettable fact that no government can ever be fully trusted to make the truly right choice when confronted by an impossible…

— James Swallow

“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“if men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others?”

— Philip K. Dick

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

“Such men depend solely upon two very uncertain and unstable things: the will and the Fortune of him who granted them the state. But…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

— Walter Bagehot