#statesmen

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction. ↗

— Robert Welch

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The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#politics #statesmen #elections

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#learning #need #power #same #scholars

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#certainly #doctors #engineers #lawyers #low

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#fought #had #led #lessons #men