Statesmen Quotes - Page 14

• The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Progress, Quests, Duty

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  Marcel Proust

  Suicide, Morning, Reading

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• No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

  George Bernard Shaw

  Confused, Hero, Age

  George Bernard Shaw (1968). “Four Plays by Bernard Shaw”, Pocket Books

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Hands, Waiting

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, African Tribes, Missionary

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157, 1957.

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• Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

  John Maynard Keynes

  War, Earthquakes, Pyramids

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

  James Martineau

  Men, Voice, Looks

  "Hours of Thought on Sacred Things". Book by James Martineau, p. 190, 1879.

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

  W. H. Auden

  Men, World, Action

  'The Dyer's Hand' (1963) 'The Poet and the City'

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• The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Blessed, Wine, Blessing

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sky, Navy, Solidarity

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.35, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Kings, Soldier, Atheism

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• When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible.
  The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Fighting, People

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• 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.

  Bob Latta

  Leader, Earth, Able

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• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Plato, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

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• He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lying, Government, Wells

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• If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Media, Challenges, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Real, People

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Attitude, Golf

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• Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

  Homer

  Shining, Chance, Action

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• Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

  Georges Danton

  Men, Vanity, Two

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• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Power

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

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• A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  Apology, May, Accused

  1636 Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

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• Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mankind, Interest, Consulting

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• Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Broken, Collectives, Statesmanship

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