A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ken Cuccinelli is a statesman. He has stood for biblical values even when it wasn't popular. — Jim Bob Duggar Copy Share Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world,… — Michael Kelly Copy Share Image
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 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
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
[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
What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Yet the interests of the international statesman may not always align with the ‘national interest’, particularly if the statesman is now also… — Stephen D. King Copy Share Image
“What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image