Prudent

Famous quotes containing the word prudent:

“There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one’s enemies as if they may one day become one’s friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Humanity cries out against this vast enormity:Mnot one man knows a prudent remedy. Blame not, then, the North; and wisely judge the South.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)