Impossible Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

— Ellen Key

“Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it…

— Thomas E. Mann

There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of…

— Eric Foner

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

— Mark Twain

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in…

— James Russell Lowell

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

— George Bernard Shaw

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

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 supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

— Enoch Powell

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

— Theodore Roosevelt