Statesmen Quotes

105 Statesmen quotes by 92 unique authors

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness… — Daphne Guinness
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. — Benjamin Disraeli
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but… — Frank B. Kellogg
Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They… — Joe Klein
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. — Margaret Mitchell
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen. — Samantha Power
We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of… — Abigail Adams
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. — Walter Scott
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards… — Virginia Woolf
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great… — Viktor E. Frankl
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,… — Mark Twain
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking… — Isaac Asimov
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end… — Arthur Henderson
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and… — William H. Seward
We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood… — Rene Cassin
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the… — Robert Toombs
For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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