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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.
— Otto Von Bismarck
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
— Arlen Specter
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
— Juvenal
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.
— Richard Cobden
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
— Thomas Reed
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
— James Bryant Conant
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
— J. William Fulbright
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
— Gustave Le Bon
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
— Henry Adams
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Statesman's wide and watchful eye, the breast Unwarped
— William Wilson Hunter
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
— Charles I Of England
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
— Woodrow Wilson
He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
— David Lloyd George
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. — Michael Stipe
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. — Michael Stipe
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
— Will Durant
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
— Ambrose Bierce
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
— Adlai Stevenson I
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
— Abraham Lincoln
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
— John Connally
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
— Wendell Phillips
And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
— Henry Kissinger
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.
— Rick Perlstein
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
— David Lloyd George
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty ... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
— Charles De Gaulle
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
— T. S. Eliot
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
— George Bernard Shaw
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
— Winston Churchill
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
— John Stuart Mill
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.
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
— Harry S. Truman
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
— William Butler Yeats
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
— Paul Johnson
He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
— Pierre Laval
A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.
— James Freeman
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
— David Mitchell
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
— Austin O'Malley
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
— Thomas Carlyle
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
— James Freeman Clarke
A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times.
— Thomas Hardy
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
— Harold Macmillan
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
— Baruch Spinoza
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
— Dean Acheson
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
— Henry A. Kissinger
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
— Tycho Brahe
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
— George Santayana
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
— Horace Mann
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
— Socrates
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
— Michael Foot
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
— Peggy Noonan
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
— Georges Pompidou
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
— James Russell Lowell
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] — Cyril Connolly
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] — Cyril Connolly
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
— Andre Maurois
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
— Ambrose Bierce
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
— Charles De Gaulle
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
— George Stillman Hillard
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
— Robert Dallek
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
— Walter Bagehot
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
— Benito Mussolini