A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough. — Manmohan Singh 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 difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb? — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as… — Paul Johnson 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
“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography? — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen… — Boy George Copy Share Image
It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
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