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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Politicians and Politics
Walter Bagehot

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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Indecision
Kenneth Baker

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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
Taxes and Taxation
Randolph Churchill

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Politicians and Politics
James Freeman Clarke

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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Peace
Grover Cleveland

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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
Uncategorised
Benjamin Disraeli

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Politicians and Politics
Benjamin Disraeli

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But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
President
Bob Dylan

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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Erich Fromm

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
America
Carlos Fuentes

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power
John Kenneth Galbraith

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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
Food and Eating
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
Fear
Napoleon Hill

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Evans Hughes

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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
Travel and Tourism
John Keats

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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
Progress
John F. Kennedy

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
John Maynard Keynes

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Politicians and Politics
Harold Macmillan

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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
Empire
William Mckinley

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Socializing and Socialism
Hector Hugh Munro

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If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
America
Richard M. Nixon

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Nations
Plato

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Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
New World
R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland

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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Unity
Sallust

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun