It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
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.
Learn to think impartially.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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.
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.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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.
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.
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.
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