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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

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