Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
HonestyIntegrityPolicy I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
LawMaterial ConditionGovernmentPolicyMorality It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
HarmonyInternational RelationsPolicyHumanityInterest Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
PolicyGovernmentMilitaryDecision-MakingAdvice It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
JusticePolicyCivil SocietyMoralityIntegrity 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.
LawPolicyStrategyPrudenceProof In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
AuthorityPrincipleRebellionPolicyPower Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
HatredFondnessSlaveryPolicyPeace The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.