Quotes About Statesman

an able statesman out of work, like a huge whale, will endeavour to overturn the ship unless he has an empty cask to play with.

In the long run, every statesman's acts today are dominated by the dread of social revolution in his own country and those of his neighbors.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm. Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

There are no set forms of high treason in history; whoever provokes one power in the state to conflict with another is certainly a revolutionist, but he may be at the same time a discerning and praiseworthy statesman.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now.

Artist and scholar, warrior and statesman, husband and father, ?a?rat 'Al? is a traditional model for chivalry, learning, and devotion.

and lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.

A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.

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.

If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

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.

I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.

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.

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at a conference; it was very flattering but it made me cringe slightly.