“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
“One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.”
James Brady
“It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?”
Winston Churchill
“When people speak to you about others, listen carefully, for this is how they will speak about you to others.”
Maichee Summer
“It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination”
Samuel Johnson
“People often ask us, 'How should I take all this?' We'd just counsel prudence at this point. This is a good time for people not to stretch in what (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan calls exotic mortgages.”
Beth Haiken
