"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

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"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

Barry Commoner, American Scientist

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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

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"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."

Vaclav Klaus, Czechoslovakian Statesman

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"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."

Elihu Root, American Lawyer

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"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."

Joe Biden, American Vice President

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"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."

Ron Davies, Welsh Politician

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"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

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"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."

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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

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"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

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"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

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"There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear."

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"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

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