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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
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 he can posture as their savior.
"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
The opponents of Mr. Modi can never change the mind of the people who have accepted and adored him as a statesman and national leader.
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.
"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.
Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.
He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
