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• And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

  John Grierson

  Art, Powerful, Information

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• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

  Plutarch

  Giving, Serious, Bed

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Impossible, Predicaments, Wrongdoing

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Learn to think impartially.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Thinking

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• The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Risk, Willing, Statesmen

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• Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Eye, Ears, Ambassadors

  Francesco Guicciardini (1755). “The history of Italy: from the year 1490 to 1532”, p.40

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• You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Emotional, Political, Politics

  1957 Labour Party conference speech against unilateral disarmament, Oct.

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• A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Men, Years

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations".

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

  George Washington

  Peace, Carpe Diem, Alliances

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  George Bernard Shaw

  True Or False, Belief, Stability

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• My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Political, Saint

  "Indira's Coup". The New York Review of Books, September 18, 1975.

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• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  George Santayana

  Positive, War, Remembrance

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.262, Рипол Классик

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• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Political, Wish

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 56

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• Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

  Chris Christie

  Cutting, Today Is The Day, Years

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• Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Employment, Politics

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• All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Running, Art, Long

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

  Plato

  Belief, Applause, Multitudes

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

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• It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

  Mark Twain

  Light, Sky, Two

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.

  Chanakya

  Father, Son, Men

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• If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

  Alexander Smith

  Secret, Wish, Secrecy

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.39, tredition

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• Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

  Erik Larson

  Country, Character, Thinking

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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

  Progress, Use, Movement

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Mouths, Politics, Politician

  "The Fine Art of Political Wit". Book by Leon Harris, 1964.

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• The people of the two nations, French and English, 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

  Race, Two Nations, People

  Letter to M. Michel Chevalier, September, 1859.

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