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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.