Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them… — Walter Lippmann 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
“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.” — James Russell Lowell 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
“The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want… — 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
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
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
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
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain 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
If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half… — Amity Shlaes 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
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
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
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
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
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
