Statesmen Quotes · Page 2

Statesmen remember things selectively.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Great statesmen oughtn't to waltz.”

— Henry James

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

— T. S. Eliot

“Brigands masquerading as statesmen.”

— Renee Patrick

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

— Anonymous

“When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.”

— Henry Kissinger

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

— Anonymous

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

— Hermann Goring

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and…

— David Lloyd George

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

— Horace Mann

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

— Edward Abbey

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

— Baruch Spinoza

There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you…

— Benjamin Carson

Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make…

— George Berkeley

“Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that…

— Arthur Helps

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor -…

— Storm Jameson

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the…

— Edmund Burke

Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A…

— Tom Coburn

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…

— Tony Benn

There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of…

— Helen Bosanquet

There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I…

— George Washington

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself…

— Bertrand Russell

I will tell you whom to vote for: We will vote for the principles of civil and religious liberty, the man who…

— Brigham Young

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad…

— James Russell Lowell

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between…

— Honore de Balzac

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

— Benito Mussolini

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

— Charles de Gaulle

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

— Kin Hubbard

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

— Lord Chesterfield

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.”

— John Steinbeck