Statesmen Quotes · Page 4

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from…

— Joseph Addison

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin…

— Adolf Hitler

I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth…

— Bob Latta

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

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

— Baruch Spinoza

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and…

— Tycho Brahe

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

— Linda Lingle

The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid…

— William Cowper

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

— John Suckling

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose,…

— Joe Klein

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty…

— John Adams

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

— John F. Kerry

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

— Horace Mann

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people…

— Henry A. Kissinger

give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave,…

— Maria W. Stewart

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as…

— Helen Keller

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

— Juvenal

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be…

— Daphne Guinness

My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays…

— Andrew Dickson White