Great Quote by Melvyn Bragg

“The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So…

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of…

— Edward Bellamy

“The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"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

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned,…

— Gillian Roberts

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

— Woodrow Wilson

“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection;…

— Mark Twain

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription. For 'Two…

— Thomas Mallon