#statesman

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

— David Lloyd George

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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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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

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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

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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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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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