Calumny Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

— Plato

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

— Walter Savage Landor

I guess if the president of the United States gives you a nickname, you have to stick with it.

— Brad Marchand

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

— Baron de Montesquieu

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that…

— John Stuart Mill

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with…

— Henry David Thoreau

The nickname is something I made up.

— Ludacris

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable…

— Robert Emmet

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville