Famous quotes by Statesman

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives"

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind"

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his"

"I am one of the people who love the why of things"

"Your wit makes others witty"

"I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity"

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination"

"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing"

"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions"

"In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read"

"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly"

"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing"

"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of"

"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system"

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body"

"Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward"

"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves"

"We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done"

"We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done"

"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian"

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up"

"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people"

"I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future"

"America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking"

"There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history"

"Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along"

"Growth is a painful process"