Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. — Sophocles

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,

He's fit for public authority.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare — I have no use for him, either.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.