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Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

I'm not happy with either party on national security. We have a lot of politicians but not a lot of statesmen.

Robert Hirsch

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

Primary candidates spend months publicly beating one another up and spending money that should otherwise be hoarded for use against the other party. Meanwhile, incumbents rise above it all stressing their credentials as statesmen.

David Sirota

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Linda Lingle

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Ambrose Bierce

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Hector Hugh Munro

I am honored to be here today at Princeton. From George Kennan and John Foster Dulles, to George Shultz and James Baker, and of course, Woodrow Wilson, many renowned American statesmen have worn the Orange and Black.

Anne marie Slaughter

After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards, I am quite confident that also the present leadership is convinced of this necessity.

Helmut Schmidt

He offers the never-never land of convenient cliches. a world where statesmen say, "We've not heard the end of this," where people turn "scarlet with anger," where the price of gold goes "sky-high" and where the unsuspecting outsider "little knew what fate had in store for him."

Paul Gray