Every man or woman with a great dream has faced both critics and enemies. Think of Robert Fulton’s steamboat--critics labeled it “Fulton’s Folly” and forecast a disastrous failure for it.

Think of Abraham Lincoln. Probably no politician in history had worse things said about him than Lincoln. Here’s how the Chicago Times in 1865 evaluated Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in commenting on it the day after its delivery: “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of a man who has been pointed out to intelligent foreigners as President of the United States.”

Perhaps the greatest compliment ever paid President Grover Cleveland was when he was put in nomination before the Democratic Convention and the orator who presented his name said, “We love him for the enemies he has made.”