Statesmen

The next time you hear some statesmen from the business community complaining that American companies can't compete internationally because of our highest-in-the-world 35 percent corporate tax rate, think of Google. ❋ Steven Pearlstein (2010)

Reproaching them for acting like politicians instead of statesmen is rather like getting mad at your car for not flying. ❋ Mark Olmsted (2010)

Clarity, directness, and full integration of purpose are qualities laudable in statesmen and the journalists who report on them. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As all true and sincere Latin American statesmen, Bolivar also placed great importance on the matter of integration. ❋ Unknown (1989)

Secretary General, and a number of Latin American statesmen attending ❋ Unknown (1983)

Peace Price to statesmen from the troubled and sadly devastated ❋ Unknown (1979)

What Americans commonly criticize in English statesmen, namely, that they habitually evade all arguments based on natural right, and defend every legal wrong on the ground that it works well in practice, is the precise characteristic of our habitual view of woman. ❋ Various (N/A)

One conclusion, indeed, which has been expressed by prominent statesmen is that we should abandon the whole attempt to make a reality of the collective system. ❋ Unknown (1934)

The other day I was talking to a distinguished Liberal statesman whoa like many Liberal statesmen, is rather contemptuous of those simple human relations and he said to me with some bitterness that the attitude of the Labour party towards the throne was not merely royalist, it was Jacobite, but I personally see very little harm in that. ❋ Unknown (1924)

In Britain statesmen in both parties thought the separation of Canada inevitable. ❋ Unknown (1915)

[Page 83] of the State – that by law established – was indeed snoring in its sleep, or if a little more awake, was speaking only in the great swelling words of vanity, which the pet of kings and statesmen is sure to utter. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Mirabeau, until he died, practically represented the French Revolution, so certain English statesmen have from time to time been representative of the best life, the best thought, the best purposes, desires, and ambitions of the country for whose sake they played their parts. ❋ Justin McCarthy (1871)

That "half a loaf is better than no bread at all" is a proverb, the truth of which no Englishman thinks of doubting, and of which certain American statesmen begin to perceive the truth. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Was it so very presumptuous in us to think that it would be decorous in English statesmen if they spared time enough to acquire some kind of knowledge, though of the most elementary kind, in regard to this country and the questions at issue here, before they pronounced so off-hand a judgment? ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

There is no better example of this quality in English statesmen than ❋ Walter Bagehot (1851)

I notice that politicians in Lebanon and US think that if they invoke the names of Churchill or De Gaulle they then come across as "statesmen"--whatever that means. ❋ As'ad (2005)

And Tommaso says, 'Francesca,' he says, 'the whole tribe of gentry they call statesmen are just policemen in plain clothes, and I do believe they've only liberated Mr. Rossi as a trap to catch him again when he has done something.'" ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Was war an instinctive thing, for which each ordinary man was as much responsible as the policy makers and the so-called statesmen? ❋ Simak, Clifford D., 1904- (1963)