We lost the American colonies because we lacked the…

The loss of the American colonies was the first time the process of British empire building had been put significantly into reverse, and became…

— David Olusoga

“During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a…

— Mark Jones

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much…

— Marquis de Lafayette

There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two…

— Mort Sahl

In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a…

— Linda Colley

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“the American Colonies. The Seven Years' War left England”

— William Roscoe Thayer

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon…

— Walter Lippmann

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

— Enoch Powell

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

— Anonymous

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

— George Bernard Shaw

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

— Fletcher Knebel

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

— Theodore Roosevelt

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

— Ellen Key