Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
The traditional British view is that character is what matters in a general. They like a solid, simple man, with no newfangled nonsense about him. He should be preternaturally silent. If by chance he thinks at all he should not let this leak out, otherwise confidence would be destroyed.
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
The real education of the masses can never be separated from their independent political, and especially revolutionary, struggle. Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.
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