Good Leaders Should Love the People They Lead

How a leader regarded those in his charge was among the key traits that separated sage kings from tyrants.
Good Leaders Should Love the People They Lead
“The Peacemakers” by George Peter Alexander Healy (1868), depicting (L–R) Maj. Gen. William Sherman, Gen. Ulysses Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, and Rear Adm. David Porter. Public domain
Joshua Philipp
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When I was a teenager, my grandfather, a captain in the Marines, told me a story about a general he met during the Vietnam War. When my grandfather went to meet this general, he found him making calls to save a group of Marines, after a rescue mission had turned into a full-scale battle.

The Marines have a creed to never abandon a fellow Marine, dead or alive. A group of Marines had been ambushed while trying to recover the bodies of another unit, and the next group that was sent in as reinforcements was also ambushed.

Joshua Philipp
Joshua Philipp
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Joshua Philipp is senior investigative reporter and host of “Crossroads” at The Epoch Times. As an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, his works include "The Real Story of January 6" (2022), "The Final War: The 100 Year Plot to Defeat America" (2022), and "Tracking Down the Origin of Wuhan Coronavirus" (2020).
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