Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
“I know that we think far otherwise, and hold them most part wise men that are in authority, princes, magistrates,{185} rich men,… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
America was founded by statesmen who were guided by strong moral and political principles. These principles have allowed this nation to flourish… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested.… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it… — Henry T. Blackaby Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I… — Abraham Lincoln 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
It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men… — Toshiko Kishida Copy Share Image
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
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