Top Statesman Quotes
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
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
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
Adlai E. Stevenson 
Orrin Hatch 
Ambrose Bierce 
Eisaku Sato 
Will Durant 
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke 
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
61% of people like this quote
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
60% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
Orrin Hatch
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
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