Thomas B. McGuire Squadron
"A general (leader) is just as good or as bad as the troops under his command make him"
-Douglas MacArthur
16 Aug 1962
"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such"
-Andre' Maurois
"The art of leadership consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category"
-Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf, vol 1, ch 3
1925
"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign"
-Percy Bash Shelly
"People ask the difference between leader and boss... The leader works in the open, the boss in the covert. The leader leads and the boss drives"
-Theodore Roosevelt
24 Oct 1910
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on ... The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully"
-Walter Lippman
"Roosevelt is Gone" New York Herald and Tribune
14 April 1945