Statesmen Quotes

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

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

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

Statesmen remember things selectively.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.