Statesman
A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
A small landholder.
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Statesman Quotations
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
Statesman Translations
statesman in German is Staatsmanns, Staatsmann
statesman in Spanish is estadista
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