Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.