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  • The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  • The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

    Leadership   Past   Tasks  
    Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”
  • The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

    Past   Essence   Politics  
  • 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 (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.309
  • There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

    Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin
  • True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

    Leadership   Art   Ought  
  • It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

    Men   Race   Enlightened  
  • The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

  • I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

    Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”
  • War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

    Peace   War   Games  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions
  • A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

    James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.132
  • The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

  • All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

    Running   Art   Long  
    Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

    Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796
  • If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

    Source: www.wsj.com
  • Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

  • A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

    Patriotic   Men   Years  
    "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations".
  • Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

  • The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

    Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on
  • 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.

    Wise   Wisdom   Party  
    William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”
  • A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

    Men   Politics   Opinion  
    'Biographical Studies' (1881) 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'
  • Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

  • If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.

    Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com
  • When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

    Money   Cutting   Order  
  • Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

  • Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

    1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

    "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.
  • If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

    Secret   Wish   Secrecy  
    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.39, tredition
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