The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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 rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be… — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. — Baruch Spinoza 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
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.'… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes 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
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
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