Leadership Quote by Stanley Hoffmann

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

Statesmen remember things selectively.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“Brigands masquerading as statesmen.”

— Renee Patrick

“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.”

— Gore Vidal

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

— Robert Bolt

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The controllists sometimes get angry when critics suggest that “state led” is a bit of a fabrication.”

— Glenn Beck

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

— Plato

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant