Statesmen Quotes

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

— John Adams

Statesmen remember things selectively.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

— George Stillman Hillard

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

— Honore de Balzac

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

— Harry S. Truman

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— Aldo Leopold

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

— Samantha Power

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

— Bill Vaughan

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

— Felix Frankfurter

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

— Georges Danton

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and…

— Ambrose Bierce

Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

— Baron George-Brown George Brown

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ...…

— Carl von Clausewitz

It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze…

— Winston Churchill

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken…

— John Bachman

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a…

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election.…

— Winston Churchill

History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling…

— John Stuart Mill

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause,…

— Chris DeRose

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices…

— James Martineau

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

With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of…

— Charles Tilly

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of…

— Mark Twain

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to…

— G. H. Hardy

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap…

— Aldo Leopold

When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November…

— Adolf Hitler

A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an…

— Richard Dawkins

It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,…

— Fred Rodell

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

— Joseph Addison

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

— James Madison

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

— Napoleon Bonaparte