“ An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ”
- Sir Henry Wotton- Copy
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“ Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ It is well indeed for our land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
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“ And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head. ”
- Charles Farrar Browne- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ”
- Sir Henry Wotton- Copy
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“ Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. ”
- Louis Orr- Copy
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“ The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ”
- Kenneth Baker- Copy
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“ The people of the two nations must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
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