Betrayal Quote by George MacDonald Fraser

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

— Pierre Corneille

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

— William Rounseville Alger

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

— Mark Twain

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces,…

— Malcolm Fraser

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

— Arlen Specter

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A…

— Edmund Burke

In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Edmund Burke

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so…

— Lawrence Reed