John Buchan said this quote

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

~ John Buchan

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

~ John Buchan

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

~ John Buchan

This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line of steel runs through the heather of no-man’s-land, and the holiday-maker claims the valleys for his own. But this busyness is but of yesterday, and not ten years ago the fields lay quiet to the gaze of placid beasts and the wandering stars. This story I have culled from the grave of an old fashion, and set down for the love of a great soul and the poetry of life.

~ John Buchan