Statesmen Quotes · Page 4

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

— Homer

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

— Manmohan Singh

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route…

— Robert Bolt

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be…

— James Madison

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

— Winston Churchill

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

— T. S. Eliot

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel…

— Wendell Phillips

When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a…

— Anthony Trollope

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin…

— Adolf Hitler

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,…

— Russell Baker

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction…

— Frank B. Kellogg

I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal…

— Branch Rickey

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad…

— Mark Twain

Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he…

— William Bourke Cockran

“Politics are popularly supposed to govern the direction, and statesmen to be the guardian angels, of Civilization. It seems to me that…

— John Galsworthy

In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am…

— Wayne Dyer

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the…

— Henry Adams

History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling…

— John Stuart Mill

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause,…

— Chris DeRose

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

— Isaac Asimov

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

— John Suckling

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

— Peggy Noonan

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

— Ambrose Bierce

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

— Gustave Le Bon

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed…

— Walter Bagehot

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

— Tycho Brahe

"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot…

— George W. Bush

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as…

— Paul Johnson

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

— Eugene Field

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

— Plato

“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to…

— George W. Bush

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

— W. H. Auden

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

— Aristotle