Top 178 Statesmen Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Statesmen remember things selectively.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists
I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.
Senator Richard Lugar is a towering figure in Hoosier history and one of the greatest statesmen ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?
Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.
Quick with advice and always caring, the 41st President of the United States was a statesmen, a role model, and an American hero.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."
Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.
