Statesmanship Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you… — Richard Carmona
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that… — Ronald Reagan
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln
President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship. — Wesley Clark
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm. — Aneurin Bevan
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship. — H.G. Wells
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. — Fletcher Knebel
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails… — Carl Jung
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed… — Erik Larson
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into… — Plutarch
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is… — Sydney J. Harris

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