Prudent Quotes

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.