Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.
You have to take people as they are because there are no others.
First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.