A Quote by George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just. — © George Washington
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
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