Statesmen Quotes

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen speak out to achieve good for their people, not to win votes. Statesmen promote the general good rather than regional or personal self-interest.”

“Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.”

“One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.”

“Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.”

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

“There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.”

“Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”