The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients...
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence that is everything.
