
“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149
Variant: We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149
"Unsaid" http://www.danagioia.net/poems/unsaid.htm
Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)
“What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.”
Speech in London (6 June 1974)
1970s
As quoted in "AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down" in Associated Press (30 January 2018) https://apnews.com/article/china-censorship-business-international-news-asia-pacific-d1f0e45181c64cd0b1a978842a81affa