The people are like water, and the government is like a boat. Water can support the boat, but it can also overturn it.
Chinese Nationalist leader
The people are like water, and the government is like a boat. Water can support the boat, but it can also overturn it.
Chinese Nationalist leader
Analogy on the relationship between government and people
Approx. 1930s
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