Character

“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.” -Calvin Coolidge

“All leaders must face some crisis where their own strength of character is the enemy.” -Richard Reeves

"Character is power." -Booker T. Washington

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." -Benjamin Franklin

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen." -Dr. Robert Jarvik

"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right." -Thomas Jefferson

“You can only govern men by serving them.” -Victor Cousin

"Politics is the art of controlling the environment." -Hunter S. Thomson

“Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.” -Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.” -Charles de Gaulle

“An election is a moral horror, as bad as battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” -Henry Adams