The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be… — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.'… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer… — William Walton Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image