Affairs Quotes

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States.

There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

We are essentially a religious people. We are not merely religious, we are inclined, more today than ever, to see the value of religion as a practical force in our affairs.

My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. But organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a battle.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

We have, however, a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear that conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

All this shows how much luck there is in human affairs, and how little we should worry about anything except doing our best.

But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.