The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. — Horace Mann 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
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. — Edward Abbey 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
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
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
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one… — Sibel Edmonds 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
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,… — Andrea Dworkin 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
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
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann 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
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image