Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle Copy Share Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category. — Baron George-Brown George Brown Copy Share Image
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior. — Heather Langenkamp Copy Share Image
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations. — James Freeman Copy Share Image
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the… — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
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