Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact, therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community"

George Mason, Statesman

"Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing"

George Mason, Statesman

"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"In the rush for justice, it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"We need to think of the future, and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad, because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

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