#statesman

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

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

#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#almost #always #feel #home #politician

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

#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me

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

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#gift #i #i think #like #mouth

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

— Warren R. Austin

#capitol #craftsmanship #peace #shall #statesmanship

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

— J. William Fulbright

#first #get #must #statesman #you

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#bridge #duty #experience #gap #his