Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary… — Stanley Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations — Otto Von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
