No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.