Impossible Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Charles de Gaulle

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

— William Rounseville Alger

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

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

— George MacDonald Fraser

The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from…

— Socrates

“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign…

— Calvin Coolidge

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

— Arlen Specter

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

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 conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole,…

— Plutarch