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Moral Leadership Quotes

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Will Rogers
Tombstone, Moral Leadership, Usa
Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Charles Hamilton Houston
Color, Moral Leadership, Rocks

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Moral Leadership, Office, Administrative

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

William O. Douglas
Moral Leadership, Court, Ability
Time Magazine Interview, November 12, 1973.

So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs, and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.

Benjamin E. Sasse
Issues, Moral Leadership, President
Source: www.sfgate.com

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Adam Schiff
War, Inspiration, Moral Leadership

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Jacqueline Novogratz
Our World, Moral Leadership, Thought Provoking

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

David Cameron
Moral Leadership, America, Way
"U.K. State Dinner Highlights Obama, Cameron Friendship" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

Barack Obama
Inspiring, Powerful, Moral Leadership
Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

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