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.
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.
Statesmen remember things selectively.
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.