Honesty is the best policy. [ Proverb ]

Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter. [ Henry V ]

Policy may be virtuous as well as vicious. [ Proverb ]

It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. [ Johnson ]

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. [ Pope ]

I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. [ Lincoln ]

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. [ La Bruyere ]

Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. [ Bacon ]

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy. [ Chief Justice Mansfield ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]