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#statesman

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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.


Will Durant


#cannot #moralist #statesman

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


Bob Edwards


#i #know #more #need #now

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.


John Connally


#out #statesman #you

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#facility #government #great #himself #hope

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.


David Lloyd George


#him #person #politician #politics #statesman

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.


Fletcher Knebel


#art #getting #harder #people #politicians

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.


Harry S. Truman


#dead #government #man #politician #statesman

Master, tell us of the city of Orphalese, and of that land wherein you tarried those twelve years." And Almustafa was silent, and he looked away towards the hills and toward the vast ether, and there was a battle in his silence. Then he said: "My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggle, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.


Kahlil Gibran


#religion #statesman #art

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.


Kenneth Baker


#conferred #practice #statesmanship

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.


Austin O'Malley


#shears #sheep #skins #statesman #them






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