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
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He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.
Ronald Steel
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.
Charles Farrar Browne
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold Macmillan
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
Tycho Brahe
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards
I've repeatedly said that Bill Clinton is neither a leader nor a statesman and I'll say it again, ... I hope this prize will help change his mind.
Jody Williams
Cheney, without a doubt, is this administration's best spokesperson on the issues ... They see him as an elder statesman, as someone who's older and mature, like a father figure.
Armstrong Williams
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Michael Foot
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor
We all hope that he will respond because we know that he is a statesman and he will take the country's best interest into consideration.
Qassim Dawoud
QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments. He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. Oglum P. Boomp.
Ambrose Bierce
Milosevic will be remembered as a negative historical individual and a dictator, and the first statesman charged with genocide.
Sulejman Tihic
AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
Ambrose Bierce
The stuff of his youth was full of real peril and witnessing many extraordinary things, ... [has] got the action part and I've got the elder statesman part -- the papal part.
Jon Voight
He can grow into a statesman, as Reagan did. Or he can continue to be a caricature of himself.
Barbara O'connor
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
John Connally
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
Ambrose Bierce
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
It really concerns me that we are losing a great statesman because the current leadership is so unwilling to realize that there are others who are different than them in many ways which is what makes our state great.
Chuck Bowen
Maria Cantwell is hosting the divisive politician instead of the statesman in the Northwest, Ted Stevens.
Tucker Bounds
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 politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
James Clarke
Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
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