Statesmen Quotes

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

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

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Statesmen remember things selectively.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

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

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.

I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

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.