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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
— Tycho Brahe
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
— James Nachtwey
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
— Thomas Reed
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
— Aldo Leopold
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
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
— Hermann Goring
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
— Linda Lingle
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
— Woodrow Wilson
The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen.
— Niall Ferguson
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
— Edward Abbey
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
— Henry Kissinger
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
— Dejan Stojanovic
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
— Ambrose Bierce
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
— Henry David Thoreau
So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members.
— Kenneth Eade
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.
— Heather Langenkamp
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
— John Stuart Mill
One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
— John Suckling
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
— George Brown, Baron George-Brown
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
Great statesmen oughtn't to waltz.
— Henry James
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
— Woodrow Wilson
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
— Benjamin Franklin
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
— Walter Scott
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
— Felix Frankfurter
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
— Samantha Power
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
— Honore De Balzac
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
— Robert Kennedy
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour .
— Andrew Dickson White
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
— Harry S. Truman
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
— Benito Mussolini
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
— George Stillman Hillard
A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.
— John Steinbeck
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.
— Frank B. Kellogg
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
— Walter Isaacson
Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists
— W. H. Auden
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
— Joseph Goebbels
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
— Charles De Gaulle