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Statesmen remember things selectively.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Senator Richard Lugar is a towering figure in Hoosier history and one of the greatest statesmen ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.
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.
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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.
I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
America was founded by statesmen who were guided by strong moral and political principles. These principles have allowed this nation to flourish and continually improve itself.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
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.
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.
We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.
While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.