"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
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Source: Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)
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