All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the… — Erik Larson 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
Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of… — Fred Thompson 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
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle 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
“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 our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope… — Charles Emmerson 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
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato 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
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
Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
