Events Quote by Otto von Bismarck

What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity…

— John Adams

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on…

— Woodrow Wilson

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

— William Shakespeare

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

— Abraham Lincoln

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

— John Stuart Mill

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the…

— Stanley Baldwin

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A…

— Edmund Burke

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

— George Stillman Hillard

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations…

— Woodrow Wilson

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

— Edmund Burke

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who…

— Alexander Pope