quotes about Statesmanship
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You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
-- Enoch PowellSource : John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”
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There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
-- George MacDonald FraserSource : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman and the Mountain of Light”, p.195, Penguin
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
History is the school of statesmanship.
-- John Robert Seeley