The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.