Scorched Earth Policy

Famous quotes containing the words scorched, earth and/or policy:

“We have scorched the snake, not killed it:
She’ll close and be herself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot!
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!””
—William Brighty Rands (”Matthew Browne”)

“A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)