Lectionary Calendar
Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
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Pastoral Resources
Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'States'
13 entries
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
Warren R. Austin, American Politician (1877-1962)
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Kenneth Baker, English Politician (1934- )
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.
Chris Christie, American Politician (1962- )
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.
Elizabeth II, British Royalty (1926- )
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
Milton Friedman, American Economist (1912-2006)
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
John Grierson, British Director (1898-1972)
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician (1911-1978)
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel, American Author (1911-1993)
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.
Walter Lippmann, American Journalist (1889-1974)
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.
James Russell Lowell, American Poet (1819-1891)
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.
Robert Dale Owen, Scottish Politician (1801-1877)
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat (1754-1838)
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
Robert Toombs, American Politician (1810-1885)
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