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Quotes by Statesman
"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
7
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."
7
"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
7
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
7
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
7
"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised."
7
"And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid."
7
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
7
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
7
"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
7
"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
7
"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."
7
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
6
"An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose."
6
"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
6
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."
6
"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."
6
"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away."
6
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
6
"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you."
6
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."
6
"Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."
6
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
6
"Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms."
Will,
6
"One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors."
6
"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
6
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
6
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
6
"I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment."
6
"Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one."
6
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