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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.
He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical.He has a Beckett little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.
Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreedthe most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most.
Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.
English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boathook to avoid collisions.
Politique inte rieure, je fais la guerre; politique exte rieure, je fais toujours la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre. My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.
The foreign policy of the noble Earl,Lord Russell, may be summed up in two truly expressive words: meddle and muddle.
England's foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?
If some of my former colleagues are to be believed, I must be the first minister in history to have resigned because he was in full agreement with government policy.
It is always the best policy to speak the truthunless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
No foreign policy, no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a fewand carried in the heart of none.
Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.
I am sure that the immediate abolition of the slave trade is the first, the principal, the most indispensable act of policy, of dutyand of justice the legislature of this country has to take, if it is indeed their wish to secure those important objects For we continue to this hour a barbarous traffic in slaves, we continue it even yet, in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions as civilisation.
French truth,Dutch prowess,British policy, Hibernian learning, Scotch civility, Spaniards'dispatch,Danes' wit, are mainly seen in thee.
Making foreign policy is like pornographic moviesmore fun doing it than watching it.
Inthefieldof world policy,Iwoulddedicatethisnationto the policy of the good neighbour.
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
Afew weeksago Ihad a revelation and told my secretary that I could give him a synthesis of forty-six years of living with economic policy. It is: 'Economic policy is random with respect to the performance of the American economy, but, thank God, there isn't much of it.'
As a Minister, it is my policy to keep all the nationalities within the Habsburg monarchy in a balanced state of well-modulated dissatisfaction.
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.
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