Quotes about statesman, page 7
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
quote by Abba Eban
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
quote by Otto von Bismarck
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
quote by Wendell Phillips
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Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
William F. Buckley, Jr. in The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
quote by Augustus Hare
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
quote by Aristotle
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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.
quote by Samuel E. Morison
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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.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
quote by Eisaku Sato
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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