We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
A person's fate is their own temper.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.