He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.