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Statesmanship Quotes
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The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing. (Quote by - Richard Cobden)
Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Spheres of influence. (Quote by - Lord G.G. Leveson-Gower Granville)
Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head. (Quote by - Artemus Ward)
If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Learn to think continentally. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. (Quote by - Sir Henry Wotton)
Learn to think impartially. (Quote by - Joseph Chamberlain)
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. (Quote by - Francesco Guicciardini)
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice? (Quote by - George Washington)
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)