The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
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In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
Public trust is essential to public safety.
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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