Statecraft Quotes
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Statecraft Quotes & Sayings
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For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.
— John Ferling
Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.
— Geraldine Brooks
Dream pleasantly.Any dream is possibility. — Lailah Gifty Akita
In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted,
— Ashwin Sanghi
Only that which happens is possible.
— Franz Kafka
Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. — John Webster
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
— Geraldine Brooks
Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft.
— Frank Herbert
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
— George S. Patton Jr.
A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself.
— Bernard Cornwell
For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart
— Sharon Kay Penman
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
— James Russell Lowell
A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.
— Helen Lawrenson
There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.
— Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
— John Ferling
He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.
— George F. Will
That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.
— Tad Williams
We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.
— Newt Gingrich
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.
— Mark Jenkins
No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
— Geraldine Brooks
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston S. Churchill
