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
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes 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
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson 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
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations. — James Freeman Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image