“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
Charles de Gaulle
“One’s academic degree is simply a piece of paper, if he has not learnt in life the basic lessons to practise humility, politeness, courteous nature and words of respect for others through his education.”
Anuj Somany
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Erich Fromm
“Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an”
Mark Twain
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”
David Lloyd George
“Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.”
Bob Edwards
