Statecraft

Examples

• If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My dear Maurice, you will be happier in the actual battle than in all the statecraft which leads to it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But anyone who makes the tariff the principal concern of statecraft is, I believe, mistaking the hedge for the house. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As a result, fragmentary investigations can be brought together and applied to the work of statecraft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The process bears as much resemblance to statecraft as sitting backward on a runaway horse does to horsemanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That a statecraft might deal with the tariff as an aid to its purposes is evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We seem to be moving towards some such statecraft as I have tried to suggest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You cannot go to any of the great philosophers even for the outlines of a statecraft which shall be fairly complete, and relevant to American life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Both he and his illusory greatness were the results of the matrimonial statecraft of his grandfather, the Emperor Maximilian I (born 1459, died 1519). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Obviously statecraft is concerned with such a change, extra-political though it is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If men find statecraft uninteresting, may it not be that statecraft _is_ uninteresting? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If Chuck said that, he went straight to the heart of that democratic morality on which a new statecraft must ultimately rest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Perhaps the insistence on the need of a culture in statecraft will seem to many people an old-fashioned delusion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These essays, then, are an attempt to sketch an attitude towards statecraft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Psyche