Statesmen Quotes

105 Statesmen quotes by 92 unique authors

Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and… — Christopher Hibbert
While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should… — Gideon Rachman
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos. — Robert Bolt
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without… — James Bryant Conant
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. — Harry S. Truman
It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions… — Winston Churchill
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the… — Eisaku Sato
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen… — Sibel Edmonds
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
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of… — Lord Chesterfield
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any. — Wendell Phillips
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. — William C. Brown
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. — Hector Hugh Munro
The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other… — John Bachman
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word… — Eric Hoffer
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. — Eugene Field
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many… — R. D. Laing
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to… — Marcus Garvey
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot. — Charles de Gaulle

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