There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary… — Stanley Hoffmann Copy Share Image
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“… the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power… — George Friedman 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
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order. — Will Rogers 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
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato Copy Share Image
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
