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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed… — George Washington
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of… — Hans Morgenthau
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make… — Samuel Eliot Morison
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant
Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator… — John Fund
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. — Peggy Noonan
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of… — Eisaku Sato
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. — Francois Arago
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 he… — Lawrence Reed
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. — Ambrose Bierce
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the… — Alice Miller
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn,… — Georges Clemenceau
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be… — W. Somerset Maugham
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the… — Alfred North Whitehead
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. — John Stuart Mill
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. — Thomas Jefferson
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by… — Adolf Hitler
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,… — Edmund Burke
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the… — Aldo Leopold
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. — Tycho Brahe
It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man. — Pierre Laval

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