I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
“I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.”
“To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.”