38 Quotes About Statesmanship

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

State first, subject second, statesman last.

In a democracy government is the God.

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.