Famous quotes by Statesmans

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are, to where they have not been"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

"Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief"

Wilma Mankiller, Statesman

"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again"

Pericles, Statesman

"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave"

Pericles, Statesman

"Time is the wisest counselor of all"

Pericles, Statesman

"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time"

Pericles, Statesman

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all"

Pericles, Statesman

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones"

Pericles, Statesman

"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial"

Pericles, Statesman

"Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft"

Pericles, Statesman

"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss"

George Mason, Statesman

"There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint"

George Mason, Statesman

"The poor despise labor when performed by slaves"

George Mason, Statesman

"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind"

George Mason, Statesman

"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes"

George Mason, Statesman

"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures"

George Mason, Statesman

"I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold sheets extreamly disagreeable"

George Mason, Statesman

"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds"

George Mason, Statesman

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