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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mothers may still want their favorite sons to grow up to be President, but ... they do not want them to become politicians in the process.

William Wilberforce
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] Trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
 

Lao Tzu

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him; worst when they despise him.

Machiavelli

One ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved . . . . Still a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred.