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The Statesman

«The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.»
Author: Austin O'Malley | About: Politicians | Keywords: shears, shorn, skins, The Statesman
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
«War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.»
«What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.»
«POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.»
«ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.»
«The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false»
«The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.»
«It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name»