Statesmanship Quotes

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.