Adherence Quote by Hubert H. Humphrey

“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born. He who…

— Oswald Spengler

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

— William Rounseville Alger

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

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon…

— Walter Lippmann

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

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

— George MacDonald Fraser

"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.

— George W. Bush

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn…

— Ronald Reagan

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

— Charles de Gaulle

“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the…

— Lawrence Goodwyn