Statesmen Quotes · Page 3

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

— Linda Lingle

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

— Juvenal

“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.”

— John Steinbeck

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless…

— Don DeLillo

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

— Andre Maurois

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

— Tycho Brahe

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

— Dan Quayle

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing…

— Richard Cobden

“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary…

— Stanley Hoffmann

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays…

— Andrew Dickson White

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should…

— Herbert Read

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard…

— Albert Gallatin

I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen…

— Boy George

The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the…

— Hans Morgenthau

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die…

— Eric Hoffer

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the…

— Henry Adams

In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am…

— Wayne Dyer

“Politics are popularly supposed to govern the direction, and statesmen to be the guardian angels, of Civilization. It seems to me that…

— John Galsworthy

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine…

— John Maynard Keynes

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him…

— Frederick Douglass

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…

— Tony Benn

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

— Andrew Dickson White

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be…

— Charles I of England

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

— Ambrose Bierce

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

— Anonymous

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

— Hermann Goring

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

— Woodrow Wilson

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

— James Bryant Conant

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

— Plato

“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

— Eugene Field

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

— Paul Johnson

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

— W. H. Auden

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

— Aristotle

"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

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

— Henry Adams