Statesmen Quotes

Statesmen Quote of the day

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

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.

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

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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.

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.

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.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

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.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

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.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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.