Quotes about statesman, page 6
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
quote by Harold MacMillan
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
quote by David Lloyd George
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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
quote by Michael Foot
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It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
quote by Pierre Laval
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
quote by Edmund Burke
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
quote by Harry S. Truman
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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.
quote by George Santayana
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It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
quote by Hyman G. Rickover
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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