Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
Truth is a very complex thing, and politics is a very complex business. There are wheels within wheels. One may be under certain obligations to people that one must pay. Sooner or later in political life one has to compromise. Every one does.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
I hate definitions.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.