Famous quotes by Statesmans

"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet"

Pierre Trudeau, Statesman

"My life is one long curve, full of turning points"

Pierre Trudeau, Statesman

"There is always room at the top"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, so we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent"

George Canning, Statesman

"Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm"

George Canning, Statesman

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