The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Conscience, in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
You can always get truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up hope of the Presidency.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.