Statesman's Quotes: top 99 famous quotes about Statesman's

Statesman's Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Statesman's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman, dressed — Various

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

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. — Ambrose Bierce

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

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle

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

sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties. The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman, — Various

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

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over. — Alan Arkin

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. — Earl Wilson

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

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. — Indira Gandhi

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

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle.

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 statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. — Augustus Hare

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. — John F. Kerry

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

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. — Kin Hubbard

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. — Abba Eban

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

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. — John Adams

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell

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

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

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century. — Saul David

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. — Baruch Spinoza

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. — Erich Fromm

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

[Otto von Bismarck] only considered the interests of his own country - always the worst offense that a statesman can commit in the eyes of foreigners. — A.J.P. Taylor

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. — Tycho Brahe

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought. — Dorothea Dix

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause. — Homer

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

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

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. — Bill Vaughan

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