Vietnamese saying

"government and people should be judged separately"

I was watching a program yesterday on tv that showed the repercussions on the people from the use of agent orange in Vietnam during the war to kill the vegetation hiding the Viet Kong.  It was heart breaking to see but while showing the birth defects that it caused in three generations of Vietnamese they mentioned that the Vietnamese don't have any hard feelings about it because they believe in this saying.  Its means that governments do things that don't necessarily reflect the feelings of the people and the people shouldn't be judged for it, especially when that government is no longer around.  I really do agree with this saying and thought I would share it.