Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. — David Lloyd George
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. — Milton Friedman
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. — Aristotle
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. — Edward Heath
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. — Plato
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. — Catherine II
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Texas Guinan
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. — James Madison
Short Statesmen Quotes
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains. — Hermann Goring
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered — Benito Mussolini
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. — Ambrose Bierce
The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. — John Adams
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. — Benjamin Disraeli
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. — John Suckling
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. — Earl Wilson
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Adlai Stevenson I
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates
Statesmen Image Quotes
Statesman Politician Quotes
Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind. — Lavrentiy Beria
A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift. — James Freeman Clarke
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. — Harry S. Truman
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. — Georges Pompidou
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. — Adlai E. Stevenson
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. — W. Somerset Maugham
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman. — Plato
A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years. — Harry S Truman
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. — Austin O'Malley
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. — Harold MacMillan
State And Main Quotes
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. — George F. Kennan
The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. — Hideki Tojo
Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community. — Halle Berry
There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. — Alexander Lukashenko
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life. — Christopher Castellani
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. — John Baldacci
The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The two enemies are the deep state and the main stream media. The mainstream media, and an older life was to hold the government accountable.. but who is holding the media accountable? It doesn’t exist in our ecosystem. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine. — W. H. Auden
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'. — James C. Scott
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life. — George Will
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed. — Robert Kennedy
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. — Aldous Huxley
We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft. — Newt Gingrich
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got. — Zora Neale Hurston
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. — John F. Kennedy
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. — Cecil Rhodes
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. — Mark Twain
There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just. — Ezra Taft Benson
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war — Elie Wiesel
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. — Daniel Webster
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil. — Hans Morgenthau
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused. — Charles I of England
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. — Theodore Roosevelt
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services — Tycho Brahe
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. — Tycho Brahe
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Eisaku Sato
I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean? — Branch Rickey
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. — Baruch Spinoza
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. — Tycho Brahe
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. — Abraham Maslow
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history. — Toshiko Kishida
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. — Jean Baudrillard
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please. — John Wolcot
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle
At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling. — Willie Nelson
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men. — Orison Swett Marden
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun. — Enrico Fermi
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote. — William Butler Yeats
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed — R. D. Laing
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. — Don Delillo
I will tell you whom to vote for: We will vote for the principles of civil and religious liberty, the man who knows the most and who has the best heart and brain for a statesman; and we do not care a farthing whether he is a Whig, a Democrat, a Barnburner, a Republican, or a New Light or anything else. — Brigham Young
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm. — James Madison
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. — Marcus Garvey
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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