An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe 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
At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli 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
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
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 mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell 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
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause. — Homer Copy Share Image
A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party;… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn,… — John Fund Copy Share Image
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson 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