John Bright Quotes

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned.

… bad times make for good policies, and good times make for bad policies.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

We live in ugly times.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

A policy which rules out and all moral purpose except national interest has a fatal lack of what is essential to enduring success.

Ninety percent of foreign policy is reacting to whatever's happening out there.

I don't propose to be swept off my feet by the catastrophe.

We must not be shocked into impotence because we are afraid of the difficulty of the alternatives facing us.

Then way Washington deals with outside events is to move, usually, very slowly. I don’t see any change in American policy unless the pressure mounts.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Unilateralism in secret is sometimes necessary at the height of a crisis.