Quote #1
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
More from John Buchan
- To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
- He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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- The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
- We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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