Ancient Quote by Ronald Steel

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of…

— A. J. P. Taylor

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

— Wendell Phillips

Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man…

— Joe Klein

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been…

— Henry David Thoreau

He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of…

— Rahul Dravid

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education…

— Horace Mann

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and,…

— Samuel Johnson

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

— Noam Chomsky

The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

— Winston Churchill

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic…

— Chuck Todd