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Statesmanship Quotes

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hard, Statesmanship

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton
Evil, Statesmen, Statesmanship
Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.230

Learn to think impartially.

Joseph Chamberlain
Thinking, Statesmanship

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

George MacDonald Fraser
Treachery, Knows, Statesmanship
George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman and the Mountain of Light”, p.195, Penguin

History is the school of statesmanship.

John Robert Seeley
School, Statesmanship

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