Prudent Quotes

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

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

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

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

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

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

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

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?

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.