Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

He who gives love, receives love.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.

Political leaders have no qualms in repeating sentiments publicly [that were] formed in the most desperate and alienated of situations in the human condition.