Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
Corruption never has been compulsory.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.