Statesmen Quotes

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the… — Russell Baker
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of… — Jean Baudrillard
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen… — Hjalmar Branting
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast… — Mark Twain
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of… — Ambrose Bierce
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. — John Suckling
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are… — Elie Wiesel
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity… — Thomas Jefferson
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it… — Fulton J. Sheen
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm… — Andrea Dworkin
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or… — Stephen Crane
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well… — Adolf Hitler

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