Statesman Quotes
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
James Bryant Conant
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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.
Auberon Waugh
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Edmund Morris
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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.
Georges Pompidou
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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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An African statesman is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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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.
Adrian Hodges