Statesmanship Quotes

45 Statesmanship quotes by 42 unique authors

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no… — Richard Cobden
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order. — Will Rogers
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. — Milton Friedman
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is… — Walter Lippmann
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to… — Theodore Roosevelt
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship. — Stephen Kinzer
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace. — Warren Austin
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. — Kenneth Baker
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic. — Robert Toombs
He forever perplexes and annoys. Every time you think he is about to show the statesmanship for which his intelligence and experience have equipped him,… — Ronald Steel
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. — Unknown Author
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations — Otto Von Bismarck

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