Quotes Tagged With :statesman

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when....

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and....

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

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

[T]here cannot be a more certain symptom of the approaching ruin of a State than when a firm adherence....

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.....

Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron.....

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.