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  • Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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    Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)
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