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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the 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 and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Truth, Lying

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.2818, e-artnow

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
  A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
  So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Drinking, Home

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• I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Teacher, Men

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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Common

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2170, GENERAL PRESS

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• It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Would Be, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.386, Cambridge University Press

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• You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

  Arlen Specter

  Politician, Knows

  "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.

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• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  George Bernard Shaw

  True Or False, Belief, Stability

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• Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Loyalty, Country, Hands

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• The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Soldier

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• The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Firsts

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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• We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

  Eric Hoffer

  Military, Moving, Fighting

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

  Kin Hubbard

  Flags, Libertarian, Amount

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• Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Age, Decay, Youth

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.142

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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

  Mark Twain

  War, Lying, Men

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• Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Mother, Real, Father

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Tools, Dupes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press

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• One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

  Enrico Fermi

  Choices, Might, Sun

  Enrico Fermi (1965). “Note e memorie (Collected papers)”

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• Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

  John Suckling

  Opportunity, Degrees, Heat

  Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.274, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

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• When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  War, Fighting, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Tombstone

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Song, Powerful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Queens, Attitude, Responsibility

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• Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'

  John Fund

  Christian, Oklahoma, Dozen

  "Coburn, a True Statesman, Steps Down" by John Fund, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2014.

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