Famous quotes by Statesmans

"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

"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

"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones"

Lord Chesterfield, 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

"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

"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Wisdom begins at the end"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Enthusiasm moves the world"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt"

Pierre Trudeau, Statesman

"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

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