Statesman Quotes

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.