Statesmen Quotes
105 quotes by 92 authors
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
— Abigail Adams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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
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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
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Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
— John Suckling
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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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
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The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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