Tao Teh Ching Chapter 17

太上，下知有之；其次，亲而誉之；其次，畏之；其次，侮之。
信不足，焉有不信焉。悠兮其贵言。功成事遂，百姓皆谓我自然。

Translation
For the highest standard (of ruling), the subordinates only knows the ruler exists; To a lesser degree, they love and honour him; Worse, they are afraid of him; To the worst, they humiliate him.
If you don't have enough faith in this, it is certain that you will not have faith. He who possesses the Tao hesitates to speak out (his achievements). When accomplished, every one just say: " Isn't that just nature's process?!"

Comments

There are four levels of ruling according to Lao Tzu. We see the last three all the times. In today's world, we can take a few examples; Leaders like Mandela are of the second rank, Bush as the fourth, Saddam of the third. It seems to me that Hu of China is close to the first rank, however, this is only due to my lack of knowledge of other rulers of the world.
The second paragraph is quite sudden. It seems the connection to the first paragraph is not clear when Lao Tzu said faith cannot be accomplished if not enough faith is possessed. Generally speaking, this chapter expands the idea of the idea of Wu Wei, or no action.