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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
Letter to Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 oktober 1863) -
For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
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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 First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
The First World War (1963) p. 20 -
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
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The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
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