After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Jim Gerlach

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Ambrose Bierce

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
A. B. Yehoshua

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).
Jonathan Kellerman

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Niklaus Wirth

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
Jo Bonner

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
Peter Yarrow

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell