Statesman Quotes
135 quotes by 120 authors
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
— Aristotle
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
— Otto von Bismarck
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
— James Freeman Clarke
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In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
— Winston Churchill
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Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those…
— Howard W. Hunter
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have…
— Bertrand Russell
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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic…
— Justus von Liebig
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his…
— Georges Pompidou
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Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
— John F. Kerry
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Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who Wrote These Statesman Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 135 Statesman Quotes, led by these top contributors: