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"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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"I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)" »Irving Layton
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"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." »George Carlin
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"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life." »Hannah Nixon
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".... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." »Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.
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"It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations." »Von Humboldt
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"She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do." »Andrew Schneider
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"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" »Julian the Apostate
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"You do the policy, I'll do the politics." »J Danforth Quayle
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"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it." »Mark Twain
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more." »Albert Camus
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"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom" »H. G. Wells
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"To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy" »MIT Assasination Club slogan
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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." »Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
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"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." »Jerome K Jerome
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"The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked." »Robert Hutchins
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"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others" »Miguel Cerbantes
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." »Jerome K. Jerome
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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." »Jerome K. Jerome
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." »Thomas Jefferson
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"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy." »George Bernard Shaw
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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." »Sir Walter Besant
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"Political policy is like a wild animal; it cannot be perfectly perceived, only appropriately considered." »Tyler DeVinaspre
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"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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