#statesman

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. ↗

— Will Durant

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

— John Connally

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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 disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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

— Walter Bagehot

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