statesman quotes

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

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.