Statesmanship Quotes
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To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
— Abraham Lincoln
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
— William Rounseville Alger
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
— Aneurin Bevan
The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.
— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.
— Wendell Berry
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
— Will Durant
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
— John Grierson
The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.
— George Friedman
He cultivated ideological fuzziness.
— H.W. Brands
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
— Milton Friedman
He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
— Stephen L. Carter
This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.
— Stephen L. Carter
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic,
— Joshua Wolf Shenk
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
— Ken Follett
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
— Otto Von Bismarck
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
— Queen Elizabeth II
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
— Warren R. Austin
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
— George MacDonald Fraser
Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
History is the school of statesmanship.
— John Robert Seeley
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
— Stephen Kinzer
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Who think in lifetimes are of no use to statesmanship.
— Louis L'Amour