Ability Quote by Edmund Burke

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

— Edmund Burke

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is…

— Plato

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the…

— Aristotle

“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

— Edmund Burke

What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity…

— John Adams

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on…

— Woodrow Wilson

“A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot…

— Timothy Snyder

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and…

— Henry A. Kissinger

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

— John Stuart Mill

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

— Horace Mann

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

— Walter Bagehot

“I’m a patriot with every fiber of my being. A patriot does what is best for his country, not what is best for its…

— James Patterson