"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

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"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

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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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"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"

George W. Bush, American President

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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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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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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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"Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda."

Eric Alterman, American Writer

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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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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

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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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"Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties."

Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

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"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

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"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."

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"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

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"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."

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"There can be no security where there is fear."

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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

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"It simply is not true that war never settles anything."

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"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."

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