Definition of Statesmanship

Statesmanship

The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

Related Definitions:

Duties, Of, Or, Statesman, The

Statesmanship Quotations

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
Milton Friedman

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter Lippmann

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.
Chris Christie

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
Robert Toombs

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
John Grierson

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Kenneth Baker

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
Warren R. Austin

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Statesmanship Translations

statesmanship in German is Staatskunst

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