#statesman

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace. ↗

— Warren R. Austin

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To be a statesman, you must first get elected. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

— Dean Acheson

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