Quotes of: Statesmen Keyword

People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen...

Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Hector Hugh Munro

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

The Sun Watches the Sun

I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.

Heather Langenkamp

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Kenzaburo Oe

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

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

Bob Edwards

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

Samantha Power

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

John Bachman

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

Felix Frankfurter

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Linda Lingle

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

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

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 W. Welch, Jr.

I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

Bob Latta

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. ...

Daphne Guinness

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

Eisaku Sato