24 Statesmen Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Generation Election Politicians Think Too Statesmen About Often Next Next Election Next Generation

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

Women Heroes Philosophers Statesmen Learned Mean Should

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

Consistency Philosophers Minds Statesmen Adored Foolish Little Little Minds

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. Bob Edwards

Politician Statesman Statesmen More He Know Dead Now Need

It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives. Jacob Rees-Mogg

Time Great People Our Minds Statesmen Our Time See Finest Proportion Pointless Absurd Bags Merits Household Issue Issues Foremost Place Little Taxing Hard Plastic Waste Lives Inconvenience

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen. Adi Godrej

World Few Politicians Too Statesmen Many

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. Alistair Horne

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. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars. Ellen Key

Politics War People Language Nationalism Way Statesmen Would Would-Be Kindred Direct Preventing Lead Support Between Leads New Most Sound Inevitably Effective Effective Way Different Whereas Race Languages Wars Coercion Conquest Present

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

Politician Statesmen Most Lincoln Been Forget Successful Professional Professionals

I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior. Heather Langenkamp

Behavior Statesmen Concerned Insulting Always Elder Set

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

Great Made Statesmen Socialist

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. Henry Grunwald

Today War World Difficult Cold Cold War Statesmen Madly Diplomats Environment Journalism Journalists New Like Looked Policy Practicing Making Foreign Foreign Policy Rocking Conducting Ended Same New World Order Turbulent Them Boat Disorder Found World Order

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. Hjalmar Branting

Peace Meetings States Statesmen Would Participating League Most Annual Quarter Effect Official Regarded Century Assembly Binding Utopian Extent

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. John Bachman

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. Rene Cassin

War Together World Men Statesmen Those Ourselves Prevent Had Attempting Recurrence Support Thus Understood Were Truly Led Order Organize Who Lessons Fought World War

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. Robert Baden-Powell

Time President Late States Statesmen Finest Also Scout America Roosevelt United United States United States Of America Present Present Time

Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class. Robert Lighthizer

Class Conservative Strong Sometimes Country Building Alexander Other Tool Statesmen Independent Merely Supported Toward Prosperous Protectionism Policy Trade Always Reagan Understood Hamilton Times Middle Middle Class Ronald Reagan Lowering Barriers

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. Russell Baker

People Writing Important President Pen Presidents Statesmen Kind Critics Write Never He Clearly Reagan Off Friends Reply Expecting Who Even Media Media People Letter Letters Pals Kept

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? William H. Seward

Wise Constitution Increase Statesmen Dangers Threatens Impending Thus Boundaries Limited How Prudent Influence Subvert Now Slavery

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