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
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. — Eugene Field 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
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
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
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
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
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
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with… — Stephen Crane 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
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard… — Albert Gallatin 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
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 Copy Share Image
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should… — Herbert Read 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 by… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I… — Joseph Addison 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 lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.” quote by Cecil Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53b/cecil-rhodes-17121_acquire_in-order-to-save-the-40-000-000-inhabita_202459.jpg)
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