Julian Critchley Quotes

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

If the leadership asks me to die a martyr, I am ready ... and if they ask me to resign, I am also ready

In politics, loyalty is everything.

We don’t have a problem of leadership. We have a problem of followership.

Accept where I am going or I will not lead you.

One thing I am is a leader and if I'm not allowed to lead, then I have to follow. So then I want to be the best follower that I can.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Learn to obey before you command.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.