The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations — Otto Von Bismarck 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
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
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
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — T. S. Eliot 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 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
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
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 is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant… — Jon Meacham 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
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants.… — Richard Cobden 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
“Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what… — Eden Phillpotts 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
“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
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 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
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.” quote by Richard Cobden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/richard-cobden-16480_antagonism_the-people-of-the-two-nations-french-and_846666.jpg)
