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Learn to think impartially.
History is the school of statesmanship.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
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.
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.
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.
Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
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.
I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.