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Tag Name "Statesmen" (80)

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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
Woodrow Wilson
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Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle 3) A commitment to truth over spin 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.
Tom Coburn
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
Lord Chesterfield
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Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
William C. Brown
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
Woodrow Wilson
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One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power
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Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.
Sibel Edmonds
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
Tycho Brahe
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
Viktor E. Frankl
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
Walter Scott
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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
Joseph Goebbels
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Charles de Gaulle
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Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
Linda Lingle
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If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
Eisaku Sato
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The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war
Elie Wiesel
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Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.
Mo Udall
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Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
Eugene Field
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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
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Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Plato
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