STATESMANSHIP

Related Subjects: Diplomacy

1. The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.—BURKE
   

2. What morality requires, true statesmanship should accept.—BURKE
   

3. The three great ends fOr a statesman are, security to possessors, facility to acquirers, and liberty and hope to the people.—COLERIDGE
   

4. It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do, and judge them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for professions, and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.—C. C. COLTON
   

5. The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.—CROMWELL
   

6. If I had wished to raise up a race of statesmen higher than politicians, animated not by greed or selfishness, by policy or party, I would familiarize the boys of the land with the characters of the Bible.—JOHN HALL
   

7. The pose of simplicity which Mr. Baldwin affects ought to deceive no one; a simple man has never been prime minister of England. His pigs and his pipe are simply the technique of propaganda. Like the orchid of Mr. Chamberlain or the ringlets of Disraeli, they create an image which the multitude can remember, and they give a satisfaction to innumerable followers who believe that a common interest in pigs and pipes is a permanent basis of political adequacy.—HAROLD J. LASKI
   

8. Honest statesmanship is the wise employment, of individual meannesses for the public good.—LINCOLN
   

9. The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.—J. S. MILL
   

10. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.—THOMAS MOORE
    

11. Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.—PLUTARCH
    

12. Statesmen will care about popular prejudice as physicians will care about the diseased condition of their patients, which they want to ameliorate.—CARL SCHURZ, Plea for Amnesty