The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it… — Henry T. Blackaby Copy Share Image
What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?"… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mohammed bin Salman is deputy Crown Prince, but this is not so important. He is a very active statesman, we have really… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image