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“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties … they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons (1968), act I, p. 12. Sir Thomas More is speaking. Ellipses in original.
“Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de sèduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous paraît fort compromise.”
— If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.”
— Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1801).
“There is a remedy against the domination imposed, not by generals, statesmen, and men of action, whose power dissolves when they retire, but by the great sort-crossers, whose power increases when they die- the remedy of becoming aware of metaphor...”
— Colin Murray Turbayne, The Myth of Metaphor (1962) p. 5.
“Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publicæ causæ.”
— An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
“Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.”
— Henry Wotton, Advice to a young diplomat.

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