Can Macbeths dishonesty be connected to Geroge Washingtons honesty?In my essay, I chose to focus on honesty as an important leadership quality, but...

This is a really interesting idea for an essay, but not an easy one.  The problem, to me, is that it's hard to think of a leader who is always honest.

Actually, I'm not sure that we would think of someone as a great leader if they were always honest.  For example, Franklin Roosevelt is famous for saying that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself.  But really, they had actual fears -- many Americans were unemployed, many more had good reason to be afraid of losing their jobs.  In that case, Roosevelt's job was to be inspiring, not to be honest.  Do you think you might want to focus on when it's good to be honest and when it's not?

As far as honesty, you might want to look at Lincoln.  He did more stuff as president than Washington did.  You might talk about him being honest by talking about how the country couldn't continue on divided instead of trying to paper over the problems and let things go on how they had been.  But even he didn't tell the truth all the time -- I really think that leaders have to fudge things in times of crisis...