The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government.
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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