Quotes About Statesman

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

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.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

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.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

His fairy godfather in the legislature was Senator Murray Crane. Few persons influenced Coolidge's life more than Crane; his father, and Dwight Morrow perhaps, then Crane. So we must pause here a moment and consider Winthrop Murray Crane, twenty years older than Calvin Coolidge, a papermaker, who having been dead a decade and a half as these lines are penned Crane may well be called a statesman.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

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.

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.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the 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 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.

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.

A man full of warm speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Every thing else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

More clearly than almost any other statesman he beheld the grandeur of the nation loom up, vast and shadowy, through the coming years.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,In action faithful, and in honor clear;Who broke no promise, served no private end,Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Like Edison, you are an inventor; like Fritjof Nansen, an explorer; like Emerson, a philosopher; like Steve Martin, an entertainer; like Lincoln, a statesman; like Wilberforce, a patient liberator. You are all these things and more—and the fabric of the tapestry upon which you're assembling this story is made up of tiny threads that few will ever notice as you weave them.

Mufti sahab, apart from being my father, was one of the tallest leaders of the state and the country.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

Woe unto the statesman," he said, "who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over!

Nowadays, of course, most senators employ a slave or two two out their speeches; I have even heard of some who have no idea of what they are going to say until the next is place in front of them; how these fellows can call themselves statesman defeats me