Consulting Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and…

— Margaret Thatcher

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 just so…

— Lawrence Reed

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

— Hans Morgenthau

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

— Charles de Gaulle

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the…

— Aristotle

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of…

— Edmund Burke

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born. He who…

— Oswald Spengler

“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once you convince…

— Joseph Befumo

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A…

— Edmund Burke

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another…

— Dean Koontz