There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato Copy Share Image
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as… — Paul Johnson 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 ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Anonymous 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
A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations. — James Freeman Copy Share Image
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden 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
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
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis 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
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause. — Homer Copy Share Image
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli 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
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category. — Baron George-Brown George Brown Copy Share Image
