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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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"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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"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 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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"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." »Howard Newton
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." »Unknown
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"You do the policy, I'll do the politics." »J Danforth Quayle
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses." »Winston Churchill
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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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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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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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"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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"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 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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"The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked." »Robert Hutchins
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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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"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn." »Blaise Pascal
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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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"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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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." »Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." »Oscar Wilde
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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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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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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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