Statesman Quotes
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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
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To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
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The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
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Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.
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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.
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If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.
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An African statesman is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists.
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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
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For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.
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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.
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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
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You can only be a Statesman if there is a State. It’s sad that some so called ‘Statesmen’ make statements/act in such manner as to cause Nigeria to disintegrate! Nigeria shall out live them.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.
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The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation
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I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
