R.D. Ronald Quotes

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

A tear-drop of green.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

I believe the best social program is a job.

Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Embrace the Savior's warm invitation to come unto Him, one by one, and be perfected in Him.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.