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
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle Copy Share Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I… — George Washington 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 not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category. — Baron George-Brown George Brown Copy Share Image
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the… — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior. — Heather Langenkamp Copy Share Image
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
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