#statesmen

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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