Quotes About Statesman

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Maybe the only way I can explain is to say that the old statesman Edmund Burke was wrong. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to go into politics.

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.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Hitler greatly admired Mussolini and aspired to become like him. Mussolini, Hitler said, was "the leading statesman in the world, to whom none may even remotely compare himself."3 Hitler modeled his failed Munich Putsch in November 1923 on Mussolini's successful March on Rome.

A knowledge of human nature is the first condition of the successful conduct of life. Every business man, lawyer, doctor, statesman, needs it. If a man should attempt to farm without any knowledge of seeds and soils, or to mine without any knowledge of metals, he would be sure to fail; how can he succeed in dealing with men if he knows nothing about human nature.

Gallatin had warned Jefferson that " government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.

François Mitterrand is credited with saying that the most essential quality for any statesman is indifference

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

The State must come before the individual soul. Yet Christ had shown that the individual soul mattered above all else. So how could one be a Christian and a statesman - let alone an Emperor? One could not, that was the answer.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Everett's stature as an orator and statesman, and in particular his association with commemorations at vital American historical sites, meant he was the unanimous choice of all seventeen Union state governors whom the organizing committee consulted.

Woe to the statesman who does not seek in these times a case for war that still holds up after the war is over.

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.