Policy

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.

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They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.

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Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

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Policy doesn't advance in a vacuum.

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“Policy” is the negation of politics; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of elite, which presumes it knows better than others how their affairs are to be conducted. By participating in policy debates the very best one can achieve is to limit the damage, since the very premise is inimical to the idea of people managing their own affairs.

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Turn him to any cause of policy,The air, a charter'd libertine, is still.

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To beguile the time,But be the serpent under 't.

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We shall not I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

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We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."

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It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to lie than to sit.

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Masterly inactivity.

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When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,—thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.

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The publick weal requires that a man should betray, and lye, and massacre.

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In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

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You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

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There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

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There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

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In the tragic days of Mussolini, the trains in Italy ran on time as never before and I am told in their way, their horrible way, that the Nazi concentration-camp system in Germany was a model of horrible efficiency. The really basic thing in government is policy. Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

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