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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
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A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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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.
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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.
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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
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Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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