Quotes with statesmanship

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

  Kenneth Wilfred Baker
  British politician (1934 - )
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• Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
  

  Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• statesmanship
• vacillation
• formalities
• instruments
• moralities
• irrelevant

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