Famous quotes by Statesmans

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"We are all the President's men"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this"

George Mason, Statesman

"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union"

George Mason, Statesman

"All men are by nature born equally free and independent"

George Mason, Statesman

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which, at the time they happened, we regarded as our greatest misfortunes, have proved our greatest blessings"

George Mason, Statesman

"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it"

George Mason, Statesman

"I retired from public business from a thorough conviction that it was not in my power to do any good, and very much disgusted with measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common policy and justice"

George Mason, Statesman

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel the steadiness of your resentment"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please. What pleases you in others will in general please them in you"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

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