Statesman

Examples

• The statesman acts in part as an intermediary between the experts and his constituency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Every statesman like every professor should have his sabbatical year. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The moving spirit in this conspiracy of governments against peoples was the Austrian statesman, Metternich. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In both the Republic and Statesman a close connection is maintained between Politics and Dialectic. Plato. The Republic.
• When a government routine conflicts with the nation's purposes--the statesman actually makes a virtue of his loyalty to the routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is needless to say that Sir Pitt was brought to change his views after the death of the great Whig statesman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Such reflections appear visionary to the eye of the practical statesman, but they are within the range of possibility to the philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
• The fact is my father showed the exact sort of talent for a statesman. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Not a statesman with the honorable record of Lord Holdhurst? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His instinct was the true statesman's instinct for synthesis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There can seldom have been a statesman of the first rank more incompetent than the President in the agilities of the Council Chamber. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then I caught my breath as I read the time-honoured title of the great nobleman and statesman whose wife she had been. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A shadow passed over the expressive face of the statesman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But conditions change whether statesmen wish them to or not; society must have new institutions to fit new wants, and all that rigid conservatism can do is to make the transitions difficult. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of Politicians or Statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways. Plato. The Republic.
• No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. Plato. The Republic.
• Instead of telling business men not to be greedy, we should tell them to be industrial statesmen, applied scientists, and members of a craft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The two statesmen bowed and walked gravely from the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Their business is to make social demands so concrete and pressing that statesmen are forced to deal with them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius or spotless virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet Wilson belongs among the statesmen, and it is fine that he should be in public life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the upshot is, she gets up glorious dinners, makes superb coffee; and you must judge her as warriors and statesmen are judged, _by her success_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Now statesmen who have set out to deal with actual life must deal with actual people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Violent revolutions may be charged up to the unreadiness of statesmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Statesmen had to do something. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But statesmen who had decided that at last men were to be the masters of their own history, instead of its victims, would face politics in a truly revolutionary manner. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When news of Sherman being in possession of Savannah reached the North, distinguished statesmen and visitors began to pour in to see him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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