Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor -… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ...… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
