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• The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, People, Mountain

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.560, Pan Macmillan

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• Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

  John F. Kerry

  Organization, Political, Agendas

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

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Vacuums, Antics

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

  Samuel Adams

  Girl, Christian, Men

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Islands, People, Heaven

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

  Abraham Maslow

  Wise, Hero, Saint

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• Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Leadership, Self, Dust

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• Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

  Pat Buchanan

  Heart, Character, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.

  Wu Bangguo

  Party, Japan, Views

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• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

  John Wolcot

  Art, Political, Gold

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

  Henry Adams

  Political, Politics, Occasional

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• When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

  John Connally

  Office, Political, Politics

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• An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Powerful, Fog

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

  Michael Foot

  Political, Rising, Politics

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• To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

  J. William Fulbright

  Political, Politics, Firsts

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• Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Political, Vision

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.179, St. Martin's Press

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• The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Sheep, Political

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• A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

  Bill Vaughan

  School, Names, Political

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• Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Faithful, Soul

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Mr. Addison' (1720) l. 67

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• The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Principles, May, Libertarian

  "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain". Book by Roderick Floud, Volume 1. p. 363, 2014.

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• We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Europe, People

  "Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939".

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• There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

  Arthur Helps

  Made, Blunders, Bus

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Thinking, Consistency

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Pain, Taken, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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