Statesman Quotes

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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.

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.

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

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.