Statesmen Quotes · Page 6

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt…

— Margaret Mitchell

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on…

— Thomas Jefferson

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his…

— Frederick Douglass

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

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the…

— Francois Arago

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be…

— Richard Branson

A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics…

— F. Sionil José

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

— Clare Boothe Luce

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and…

— Anonymous

It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of…

— Samuel Johnson

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity…

— Marcus Garvey

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never…

— Wendell Phillips

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as…

— Paul Johnson

Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

— Aldo Leopold

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

History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men…

— Toshiko Kishida

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is…

— George Washington

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but…

— Mark Twain

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it…

— Henry T. Blackaby

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly…

— James Bryant Conant

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

— James Nachtwey