#statesman

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. ↗

— John Grierson

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. ↗

— Michael Foot

#elder #hope #intervening #passed #period

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#man #statesmanship

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#assistance #friend #help #man #neither

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#dangerous thing #history #how #i #learned