You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.
Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.
I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.