Quotes Tagged With :statesmanship

Learn to think continentally.

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question....

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

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

Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept....

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't....

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address....

Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition....

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!