Statesmen

Examples

• 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.
• The manners of Mr. Lodge have that immobility which comes from too much gazing at bad statues of dead statesmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Observe, too, how grandly Democracy sets her foot upon all our fine theories of education,--how little she cares for the training of her statesmen! Plato. The Republic.
• A new age was beginning with new and greater imperatives, and these nineteenth-century statesmen were but pretending to control events. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And all the higher class of statesmen have in them something of that idealism which Pericles is said to have gathered from the teaching of Anaxagoras. Plato. The Republic.
• Suppose that statesmen transferred their reverence from the precedents and mistakes of their ancestors to the human material which they have set out to govern. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The statesmen still schemed and man?uvred as if nothing grew but the power of wary and fortunate kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Statesmen dressed this up as the work of the spirit of Nationalism, but there were times and occasions when that costume wore very thin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The weakness I have suggested is one that all statesmen share in some degree: an inability to interpret adequately the world they govern. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The two statesmen exchanged a quick glance and the Premier's shaggy eyebrows gathered in a frown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Those statesmen who have been disposed to favour it with particular encouragement, seem to have mistaken the effect and symptom for the cause. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We cannot understand how Plato's legislators or guardians are to be fitted for their work of statesmen by the study of the five mathematical sciences. Plato. The Republic.
• The Austrian statesmen read him aright. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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