Quotes Tagged With :statesmanship

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

Learn to think continentally.

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

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

presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is....

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

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

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as....

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.