Policy Quotes

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. (Mark Twain)
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. View quote
Linus Pauling
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. (Edmund Burke)
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. View quote
Edmund Burke
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! View quote
Roland Barthes
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. View quote
Robert McNamara
No policy is worth anything outside of reality. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean. (Sylvia Earle)
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. View quote
John Ruskin