We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
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.
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
The objects of this primary education. . . would be. . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Statesmen remember things selectively.