Authority will lead you into ruin.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state.

If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

When the citizenry lose trust and believe that their government has their interest at heart, anarchy is unleashed and we mark the beginning of a sorry end.

Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

[I]n a matter of weeks you lost the confidence of the financial markets, the electorate and your own MPs.

Losing hope is the beginning of your own self-defeat.

If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.

Clearly, in this world, you were a fool to count on beneficence from above.

Whatever victories our army achieves in this war, we are going to lose it with this kind of approach of the country's leadership.

The public be damned!