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 wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Anonymous 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
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell 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
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer… — William Walton Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb? — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.'… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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